harbut Castle,
The castle (Xarpît) Harput Castle, also known as Milk Castle is located in the historical neighborhood of the Kurdish city of Kharbut (Azeig), located in northwestern Kurdistan/Turkey, a scarcity of water and abundance of milk during its construction meant that milk was added to the castle's mortar, leading to it being sometimes called Milk Castle , It is a rectangular architectural building consisting of two parts: the inner castle and the outer walls. The entrance to the castle is located towards the east of the city of Kharbut. The castle was built in a location that makes it dominate the Kharbut plain. During excavations in the castle many dungeons and living and treatment areas were found. And milk was added to the mortar used in building the castle instead of water, so the castle is also called the milk castle, and according to another rumor, the reason for using milk instead of water in the castle mortar is the scarcity of water in that period. Kharput Castle was built by the Urartians (Kingdom of Urartu) in the eighth century BC. Then the castle was subjected to Median rule in the sixth century BC. Between the first century BC and the eleventh century AD, the castle was successively under Parthian, Roman, Sasanian, Byzantine and Abbasid rule, and until the end of the eleventh century AD it was under Byzantine rule. Then it came under the rule of the Seljuks, and the dominance of several forces over the castle and the region was repeated, until it fell in the year 1515 AD under the Ottoman rule by the Ottoman Sultan (Yawz Sultan Selim).[1] [2]