Tumlu (formerly: Dumlu) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its population is 453 (2022). Above the village is a magnificent fortification dating from the period of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. This well-preserved site displays horseshoe-shaped towers, a complex entrance, numerous vaulted undercrofts, and cisterns. This site was the subject of a University of California archaeological survey in 1974 and 1979.Photographs and plans of the medieval fortress at Tumlu / Dumlu Neither these surveys nor the one conducted earlier by G. R. Youngs could find any evidence of Crusader construction or occupation.G. R. Youngs, “Three Cilician Castles,” Anatolian Studies 15, 1965, pp.113-118.
See also
List of Crusader castles
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