Toprakkale is open to visitors, with lighting at night and the grounds laid out. It stands on an artificial mound at the meeting point of the Osmaniye, Adana and İskenderun roads — two kilometres from the district of Toprakkale and about ten from the provincial centre.
Its history goes back to around 2000 BC. In the eighth century it was rebuilt in black stone in the time of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, and in the Ottoman period it was known as Kınık castle. It is rectangular in plan, with twelve towers and an outer courtyard wall.
Getting there
- Access
- About 10 km from the provincial centre and 2 km from Toprakkale.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Osmaniye as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 8.9 °C in January to 28.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May and October; rainfall is heaviest in March (116 mm) and lightest in August (10 mm). Long-term means for 1986-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
