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Gire Korriye



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Type:
Mound
Altitude:
410 m
Diameter:
m- Direction:

Region:
Southeastern Anatolia
Province:
Mardin
District:
Kiziltepe
Village:
Büyüktepe

Destruction :
Contemporary Settlements - Natural causes

TAYEx:
Visited - 20/9/2001

Registration State:
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Location:
Geography and Environment:
Destruction Details: The site of Gire Korriye is destructed by contemporary settlement and natural causes. There are sunken areas occurred by of erosion and gutters made by rain. There are houses on northeast and east slopes of the mound ; there is also a place where a holy man is buried on eastern skirt. It is recorded that the settlement which the whole north portion cut was being destructed by removing soil by the time the documentation work was being done [TAYEx 20.9.2001].


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