Kyzyl-Kala

Kyzyl-Kala
Kyzyl-Kala

Kyzyl-Kala fortress, 1st-4th century AD: original ruins, and reconstruction (left third portion simulated)
Kyzyl-Kala is located in West and Central Asia
Kyzyl-Kala
Shown within West and Central Asia
Kyzyl-Kala is located in Uzbekistan
Kyzyl-Kala
Kyzyl-Kala (Uzbekistan)
Alternative nameKyzyl-Kala
LocationKarakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
Coordinates41°55′48.1″N 60°47′02.8″E / 41.930028°N 60.784111°E / 41.930028; 60.784111
TypeSettlement
History
PeriodsParthian, Sasanian
Site notes
ConditionRuined

Kyzyl-Kala, also Qyzyl Qala ("Red fortress"), in modern Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was an ancient fortress in Chorasmia built in the 1st-4th century AD. The small fortress of Kyzyl-Kala is located near Toprak-Kala, about 1 km to the west, and was also built in the 1st-4th century AD, possibly as a fortified defense for the site of Toprak-Kala. Kyzyl-Kala was once restored in the 12th century. It has also been the subject of a modern renovation program, with the objective of showing what a fortress looked like originally. It is part of the "Fifty fortresses oasis" in modern-day Uzbekistan. It was last occupied by Muhammad II of Khwarazm (1169, 1200-20), ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire, before it fell to the Mongol conquest of Khwarazmia.


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