Hasankeyf

Hasankeyf is an old town and area situated along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in southeastern Turkey. It was pronounced a characteristic protection region by Turkey in 1981. Kurdish individuals frame most of the downtown area today. A significant part of the city and its archeological locales are in danger of being overflowed with the finishing of the Ilisu Dam. In Roman occasions, Hasankeyf known as Kepha, Cephe, Cepha or Ciphas was a construct for legionaries in light of the boondocks with the Sasanian Empire of Persia.

For a period the town turned into the capital of the Roman territory of Arzanene, in spite of the fact that Nisibis was the home office of the Dux Mesopotamiae. Constantius II 324– 361 fabricated a stronghold at Kepha, yet it is misty whether this was on the present bastion site. The presence of a Roman scaffold over the Tigris at Hasankeyf has been seen as "exceedingly plausible" by one researcher who theorizes that like the later extension it might have had "a wooden superstructure dependent on wharfs of workmanship and common stone".

However, none of the rest of the structure of the scaffold seems to date from Roman times. The parity of intensity in the district moved essentially in 363. Following the passing of the head Julian at the Battle of Samarra, his successor Jovian was compelled to surrender to the Persian King Shapur II the eastern areas of Arzanene, Moxoene, Zabdicene, Corduene and Rehimena.