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Town of Julamerik, Hakkari

Place: Hakkari · today Türkiye
Date: 1842

Engraved frontispiece view of Julamerik (Colemêrg) in Hakkari: a castle on a rocky spur above flat-roofed houses, with snowy peaks behind. Ainsworth visited Mar Shimun at nearby Qudshanis in 1840.

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Ainsworth, Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia, vol. 2 (1842), via Internet Archive (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy)

Ainsworth, William Francis · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

Town of Julamerik, Hakkari

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