User:Rupert Clayton/List of historic and archaeological sites threatened by the Ilısu Dam

This is a list of historic and archaeological sites expected to be damaged or destroyed by the construction of the Ilısu Dam in southeast Turkey and the filling of the reservoir behind it. When complete, the reservoir is expected to have a normal water level of 525 m above sea level and a maximum operating level of 526.8 m. Filling of the dam is due to begin during 2014 and take between 5 and 27 months.

The list is divided into two sections. The first list covers historic sites in the lower part of the town of Hasankeyf, which were largely constructed by the Artuqid and Ayyubid Islamic cultures of the 12th to 15th centuries. The second list covers archaeological sites in the wider area of 313 sqkm that will be flooded by the dam's reservoir. These show evidence of permanent occupation as early as the Middle paleolithic period, about 100,000 years BP and cover almost every intervening period.