The Ankara Castle is one of the Turkish capital’s oldest sights. The fort takes up around 43 square kilometres, with a wall of 14-16 meters (50-52.5 feet) and includes 42 towers. The castle is surrounded by walls that extend three stories high. The inner castle is rocky. It’s very hard to climb into the castle on these slippery rocks. There are cannons, various weapons, ammunition and 600 houses inside the inner castle. The inner castle is surrounded by a second series walls. There is a third outer wall on the slopes of the mountain.

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The castle witnessed many invasions, undergoing many repairs and renovations from Galata (a domain in Ankara), Roman Emperor Caracalla, the Seljuk Empire). The old Ankara houses that are within the castle’s outer wall are also very beautiful and are composed of wood, mud brick, and tile.

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