Güveloğlu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Yüreğir Yüreğir () is a district-municipality of the Adana Province. It is the second most populated district of the province with a population of over 400 thousand, mostly concentrated on the east side of the Seyhan river, within the city of Adana. Man ...

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. Its population is 322 (2022). Approximately 5 kilometers to the east of the town is the impressive fortress of Güveloğlu Kalesi, also known as Gökvelioğlu Castle. In 1965 G. R Youngs published a survey and description of this site. In 1987 Robert W. Edwards published improvements to his earlier plan and added many new observations. This castle has two large baileys that are defined by imposing walls, towers, and undercrofts at the northeast and southwest and sheer cliffs elsewhere. In the north or upper bailey is a huge cistern covered by barrel and groined vaults. Edwards discovered that the Byzantines are responsible for the first building period (perhaps with some Arab additions) and that the second building period, which defines most of the complex, is from the

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during the 12th or 13th century. There is no evidence to associate Gökvelioğlu with the castle of Vaner, which appears in the coronation list of

Leo I, King of Armenia Leo II (; 1150 – 2 May 1219) was the tenth lord of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Armenian Cilicia, ruling from 1187 to 1219, and the first king to be crowned, in 1198/9 (sometimes known as Levon I the Magnificent). Leo eagerly led his kingdom al ...

. An extensive photographic survey and plan of Güveloğlu Castle was made between 1973 and 1981.The survey was conducted under the auspices of the University of California at Berkele

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Neighbourhoods in Yüreğir District {{Adana-geo-stub