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Sarkel (or Sharkil, literally white house in Khazar language) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s. It was named white-house because of the white limestone bricks they have used to build Sarkel. Sarkel was located on the left bank of the lower Don River, in present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia.

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  • Sarkel
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  • Sarkel (or Sharkil, literally white house in Khazar language) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s. It was named white-house because of the white limestone bricks they have used to build Sarkel. Sarkel was located on the left bank of the lower Don River, in present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia.
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  • 47(xsd:integer)
longs
  • 23(xsd:integer)
Built
  • 830.0
archaeologists
excavations
  • 1930.0
latm
  • 42(xsd:integer)
longm
  • 16(xsd:integer)
Name
  • Sarkel
Type
  • Fortification
Caption
  • Aerial photo of the excavations conducted at Sarkel in the 1930s.
lats
  • 18(xsd:integer)
longEW
  • E
Region
  • Rostov Oblast
cultures
  • Khazar
Condition
  • Submerged by Tsimlyansk Reservoir
latNS
  • N
native name
  • Sharkil
longd
  • 42(xsd:integer)
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  • European Russia
Builder
  • Khazars, Byzantine Empire
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  • title
Location
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  • Sarkel (or Sharkil, literally white house in Khazar language) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s. It was named white-house because of the white limestone bricks they have used to build Sarkel. Sarkel was located on the left bank of the lower Don River, in present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia.
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