Rabat castle is in ruins, and only a very small part of it has come down to the present. It stands on a single mass of rock about eight kilometres north of Yanikkaya — the village also called Rabat — which is itself 18 kilometres north of the Kozluk district of Batman.
Almost nothing is established about it. No inscription giving the date of building has been found on it, and the district governorate states that no information about the castle has yet been found in historical sources either. In plan, material and building technique it shows the features of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and it is estimated to have been repaired and used in later periods.
Getting there
- Access
- At Yanıkkaya (Rabat) village, 18 km north of Kozluk.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Batman as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.6 °C in January to 30.3 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in March (76 mm) and lightest in July (2 mm). Long-term means for 1952-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
