The castle stands on the bank of the Tigris in the centre of Cizre and is made up of an outer and an inner castle. From the remains, the stages of its building can be followed from the Roman and Byzantine periods onwards.
The form it has come down in is the one it took between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, in the period of the Atabegs of Mosul and the beys of Cizre.
Getting there
- Access
- In the Cizre district of Şırnak.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Şırnak as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.6 °C in January to 29.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in March (120 mm) and lightest in August (1 mm). Long-term means for 1970-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
