Lake Hazar
Template:Short description Template:Expand Turkish Template:Infobox lake Lake Hazar (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a rift lake in the Taurus Mountains, 22 km southeast of Elazığ, notable as the source of the Tigris. Formerly known as Lake Geoljuk,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". the lake was used as an execution site during the Armenian genocide.[1][2]
Sunken city
Scientists found 4,000-year-old archaeological traces of a city, estimated to have been submerged since 1830, below the lake. Turkey wanted to register this historic 'Sunken City' in eastern Anatolia as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[3]
Ebubakar Irmak, mayor of Sivrice, dove into the lake in 2017 and found the remains of churches, walls of a castle, pots, pottery and glazed plates of the citadel with traces of the Seljuk, Byzantine and Ottoman eras.[4][5] In 2019, amphora tombs were found in the sunken city.[6]
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