Diz-i Safid

Diz-i Safid ("white citadel") is a ruined hilltop fortification on a limestone knoll that rises about 140 m from the western river flats in the middle of Iyık Janyl. Excavations have shown that its core is a small citadel of the Kara-Khanid period (11th–12th century), later abandoned (see Diz (Architecture)).^[1] Church tradition holds that Christian clans refortified the hill during the wars with the Dzungars in the 1720s, and the lime-plastered walls that give it its name show repairs of the 18th century. The ruins overlook the Lower Town and the Naryn, and the hill is kept as a public park.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Talas State University Press (2018). Iyık Janyl: A City and Its Quarters. Talas.
2. ^ Cathedral Archives of Iyık Janyl, Diocesan Register and Chronicle of the Syro-Iradi Synod.