Sinop Fortress
Sinop Fortress is a historic castle in Sinop, Turkey.Photo: Ertly, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Turkey
- Also known as: “Sinop Castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Alaaddin Mosque, Sinop and Sinop Archaeological Museum.
Alaaddin Mosque, Sinop
Mosque
Photo: Acar54, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alaaddin Mosque is a historical mosque in Sinop City, Sinop Province, Turkey. Alaaddin Mosque, Sinop is situated 290 metres northwest of Sinop Fortress.
Sinop Archaeological Museum
Museum
Photo: Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sinop Archaeological Museum, or Sinop Museum, is a national museum in Sinop, Turkey, exhibiting archaeological artifacts found in and around the city. Sinop Archaeological Museum is situated 330 metres north of Sinop Fortress.
Balatlar Church
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balatlar Church or Sinope Koimesis Church originally built as a Roman Imperial bath in the 2nd century, the complex, featuring spaces such as the Palaestra, Frigidarium, Tepidarium, Caldarium, and Laconicum, was converted into a church in the late 4th or early 5th century. Balatlar Church is situated 580 metres east of Sinop Fortress.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sinop and Korucuk.
Sinop
Photo: MichaelSchoenitzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sinop is a city in the Western Karadeniz region, on the Turkish Black Sea coast. In 2022 it had a population of 57,404.
Korucuk
Suburb
Korucuk is a neighbourhood of the city Sinop of Sinop Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,080. It is situated only 3 kilometres west of the isthmus where the city of Sinop situated. Korucuk is situated 4½ km southwest of Sinop Fortress.
Sinop Fortress
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sinop Bucağı, Sinop, Sinop Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
42.02458° or 42° 1′ 29″ northLongitude
35.15075° or 35° 9′ 3″ eastOpen location code
8GJQ25F2+R8OpenStreetMap ID
way 229855105OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q6009704
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sinop Fortress” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حصن سينوب”
- Arabic: “قلعة سينوب”
- Azerbaijani: “Sinop qalası”
- French: “château de Sinop”
- French: “château de Sinope”
- French: “Château de Sinope”
- German: “Burg Sinop”
- Persian: “دژ سینوپ”
- Russian: “замок Синоп”
- Slovenian: “grad Sinop”
- Spanish: “castillo de Sinop”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Sinop”
- Turkish: “Sinop Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Сінопська фортеця”
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