The Balikligöl (the Pool of the Sacred Fish), considered a place of veneration because tradition has it that King Nemrut, enraged with Abraham for hurling himself against the pagan gods, ordered him to throw him on a pyre by means of a catapult from the top of the hill where the fortress stands today and instead witnessed the miracle of the transformation of faggots into fish and fire into water. Abraham not only did not die burned alive, but landed on a carpet of fragrant roses.
