Guide
What stands at Sebeterias today is a few stretches of ruined wall and the rubble stone that belonged to them. The castle — also known as Diziktepe — is in the Murat valley in the Genç district of Bingöl, beside the river and the Genç bridge, and the river has eaten away part of it: one of its towers has fallen in.
It was built in the Urartian period, one of three important castles the Urartian king Menua had raised to hold the Bingöl highlands. Its position is on the pass that links south-eastern Anatolia to eastern Anatolia, and it was built in the manner of a small guard post, a frontier tower to keep the road safe. Evliya Çelebi, in his book of travels, describes its bastions and towers as pentagonal and built of large stones.