Eğin

Eğin, known in Armenian as Akn, clings to the steep western bank of the Euphrates among the mountains of eastern Anatolia. Its houses rise above the river, and orchards occupy the narrow ground beneath the cliffs. A road through Eğin linked Harput and Erzincan with routes toward Iran and the Black Sea. A bridge over the Euphrates is recorded by the seventeenth century, giving travellers a crossing through the deep valley.