Guide
The Malazgirt Battle Historical National Park takes its name from the battle fought on 26 August 1071. It was declared on 17 March 2018 and covers 238.54 hectares in the Danişmentgazi quarter of the Malazgirt district of Muş.
This is a commemorative site rather than a wilderness, and its facilities say so: a conquest way, an open-air prayer ground, a protocol service unit, a speaking area and a ceremonial ground, the Alparslan mosque, lavatories and ablution fountains, car parks, and administrative and guest buildings. Alongside them are a public garden, a public reading house, children's playgrounds and basketball courts.
The trees recorded in the park are largely planted rather than native: Anatolian chestnut, green ash, Tatar maple, red maple, western plane, Norway maple, weeping willow, rowan, Scots pine, blue spruce, silver birch, poplar, crab apple and wild cherry. The animals recorded are fox, hedgehog and mole among mammals; sparrowhawk, common buzzard, starling, kestrel, peregrine, magpie, house sparrow, European bee-eater and yellow-legged gull among birds; and the spur-thighed tortoise along with various snakes and frogs.
The park is used mostly by people from Malazgirt for picnics, walking and outdoor events, and is busiest in spring and summer. Getting there: signs for the Malazgirt Zafer Alanı and the historical national park begin on the D-300 before the town centre; turn off onto the side road, which is flat, wide and asphalt, and after two or three kilometres you reach the main gate. There is a large car park.
- Designated
- 17.03.2018
