Diyarbakır İçkale Walls
The fertile lands of Mesopotamia are a geography where many tribes came and passed through and produced civilizations. BC3. In the millenniums, the Assyrians were the rulers of the region. The first known name of Diyarbakır appears in Assyrian texts: “Amidi” Over the millennia; Hurri-Mitannies, Urartians, Persians, Romans, Seleucids, Parthians, Great Tigrans, Arabs, Umayyads, Abbasids, Şeyhoğulları, Mervanis, İnaloğulları, Nisanoğulları, Seljuks, Artuqids, Eyyubis, Ilkhanids leave traces in the history of Diyarbakir.
All these different cultures and states surprisingly agree on the basic settlement truths of the city: Looking at the evidence and location from İçkale, it is understood that this place had a continuous function as the city's "administrative center" until recent years. Therefore, Suleiman the Magnificent expanded İçkale by adding 16 bastions and two new gates.
The remains of the Artukoğulları Palace, which belonged to the beginning of the 13th century, were unearthed during the excavations at the Virantepe Mound in İçkale. The most important part of the ruins is an ornate pool that opens to four sides with iwans. The "selsebil" solution, which was seen in the Artuqids and made to benefit from both the sound and the coolness of the water, still lives in the Gazi Mansion, which is the building of the same period. . Former Courthouse, Prison, Corps and Gendarmerie buildings, Saint Corc Church is waiting to get a new life.
World-class Archeology Museum, Stone Artifacts Museum, Museum Cafeteria, Church in the historical buildings in İçkale; Art Gallery, Prison Building; It was functioned as a Congress Center.
