Sarkel
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Sarkel
- Ancient site.native_name
- Sharkil
- Ancient site.image
- Sarkel.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Aerial photo of the excavations conducted at Sarkel in the 1930s.
- Ancient site.map_type
- European Russia#Russia Rostov Oblast
- Ancient site.location
- Russia
- Ancient site.region
- Rostov Oblast
- Ancient site.type
- Fortification
- Ancient site.builder
- Khazars, Byzantine Empire
- Ancient site.built
- 830s
- Ancient site.cultures
- Khazar
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1930s
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Mikhail Artamonov
- Ancient site.condition
- Submerged by Tsimlyansk Reservoir
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thumb|200px|Hungarian Prehistory|Migration of Hungarians thumb|200px|Turkic Tamgas on some of the bricks from Sarkel
Sarkel (or Šarkel, literally "white house" in the Khazar language) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress in what is now Rostov Oblast of Russia, on the left bank of the lower Don River.