Lake Hazar

Lake Hazar
Lake Hazar
	Lake Hazar and pine trees
	Lake Hazar
Location	Taurus Mountains
Coordinates	38°29′N 39°25′E / 38.483°N 39.417°E
Lake type	Rift lake
Primary outflows	Tigris
Basin countries	Turkey
Max. length	22 km (14 mi)
Max. width	6 km (3.7 mi)

Lake Hazar (Turkish: Hazar Gölü; Kurdish: Gola Hezarê; Armenian: Ծովք լիճ, romanized: Covk‘ lič) is a rift lake in the Taurus Mountains, 22 km southeast of Elazığ, notable as the source of the Tigris. Formerly known as Lake Geoljuk,^{[citation needed]} the lake was used as an execution site during the Armenian genocide.^[1]^[2]

Sunken city

Scientists found 4,000-year-old archaeological traces of a city, estimated to have been submerged since 1830, below the lake. Turkey wanted to register this historic 'Sunken City' in eastern Anatolia as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.^[3]

Ebubakar Irmak, mayor of Sivrice, dove into the lake in 2017 and found the remains of churches, walls of a castle, pots, pottery and glazed plates of the citadel with traces of the Seljuk, Byzantine and Ottoman eras.^[4]^[5] In 2019, amphora tombs were found in the sunken city.^[6]

References

^ Kaiser, Hilmar (2010). "Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire". In Bloxham, Donald; Moses, A. Dirk (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923211-6.
^ Kinzer, Stephen (10 May 2000). "Turkish Region Recalls Massacre of Armenians". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
^ "Ancient underwater city in Turkey sparks interest". Ancient underwater city in Turkey sparks interest (in Turkish). Retrieved 2018-08-23.
^ "Underwater ancient city in Turkey sparks interest". Retrieved 2018-08-23.
^ Şafak, Yeni. "Underwater ancient city in Turkey sparks interest". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2018-08-23.
^ Amphora tombs found in sunken city

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[1] Kaiser, Hilmar (2010). "Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire". In Bloxham, Donald; Moses, A. Dirk (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923211-6.

[2] Kinzer, Stephen (10 May 2000). "Turkish Region Recalls Massacre of Armenians". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2021.

[3] "Ancient underwater city in Turkey sparks interest". Ancient underwater city in Turkey sparks interest (in Turkish). Retrieved 2018-08-23.

[4] "Underwater ancient city in Turkey sparks interest". Retrieved 2018-08-23.

[5] Şafak, Yeni. "Underwater ancient city in Turkey sparks interest". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2018-08-23.

[6] Amphora tombs found in sunken city

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