"Arabat" - a fortress on the Arabat Spit At the base of the Arabat Spit, off the coast of the Crimea, near the salt mine, is the old, already destroyed Turkish fortress “Arabat”. It was built, it is believed, in the second half of the 17th century, in the southern base of the Arabat Spit, two kilometers north-west of the village of Ak-Monai (Kamenskoe) on a narrow sandy str..