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Kuşkayası Monument
41.7233° N, 32.3651° E
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Kuşkayası (Turkish for Bird's rock) is a roadside monument just outside the town of Amasra, in Bartın Province, in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. It was erected in the Roman Imperial age.
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AD 41–54
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