Hevsel Gardens
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Key facts
- Location
- Diyarbakır , Diyarbakır Province , Şanlıurfa Subregion , Southeast Anatolia Region , Turkey
- Part of
- Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape
- Criteria
- Cultural: (iv)
- Inscription
- 2015 (39th Session )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- field
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Diyarbakır Province
- Image
- Tigris River At Diyarbakir.JPG
Show 3 more facts
- native label
- Hevsel Bahçeleri
- Commons category
- Hevsel Gardens, Diyarbakır
- located in/on physical feature
- Southeastern Anatolia Region
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Encyclopedic overview
The gardens in 2010 The Hevsel Gardens (Turkish: Hevsel Bahçeleri, Kurdish: Baxçeyên Hewselê), are the seven hundred hectares of cultivated, fertile lands near the Tigris in eastern Turkey, between the Diyarbakır Fortress and the river. The fortified city was enclosed by a two-part system of defensive walls, and the gardens, fed by springs on the steep slope below, played a vital role in keeping the city provisioned and watered. The gardens were added to the UNESCO tentative list in 2013, and they became a World Heritage Site in 2015, along with the walls of Diyarbakır Fortress.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hevsel Gardens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.