Djamboulat Bastion | Famagusta

This bastion is adjacent to the modern entrance to the harbour, it is named after the Commander of the Ottoman forces who succeeded in effecting a successful entry into the city by riding his horse into the whirling wheel that guarded the bastion gateway. The Venetians had created a fiendishly lethal device of a wheel covered in sharp blades that cut to shreds anyone who tried to stop it. After a ten month siege the Ottoman forces found that they had a leader who was prepared to risk everything to bring the fight to an end. This indeed he did but lost his life, and that of his horse in the process.

The bastion contains Djamboulat’s tomb and there is a small museum containing military artefacts.

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