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ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES
Mardin
(Center), Mardin Castle, Dara
Ruins in Oğuz Village, Savur
District, Kışla Quarter in
Nusaybin District, and Gırnavaz
Ruins in Nusaybin Çağlar
Village.
DARA RUINS
With its castle built by
Yuvanish a famous Persian King it is the most
archaic city that contains water canals known
as the oldest canals in the world and has got
splendour pattern carved rocks and mountains
being obstinate against nature.
Being 30 km far to Mardin
at the east Dara was the most famous and
historical city in the Mesopotamian plain.
With its theatre stages,
water cisterns, water mill, dam, bridge and a
40 km underground jail Dara, witnessing
centuries, was the important place once a
university was to have been built in.
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