ALANYA WITH ITS UNIQUE BEAUTY
ALANYA was established on a small peninsula with the Taurus Mountains in the north and the Mediterranean in the south. Since it was located on the line between Pamphylia and Cilicia in ancient times, the flannel Pamphylia was sometimes called Cilicia. There is no definite information about the first settlement of Alanya. Prof Dr Kılınç KÖKTEN’s researches in Kadıini Cave, located 12 km from the city center in 1957, show that the history of the region dates back to the Upper Paleolithic (20,000,-17,000 BC).
ALANYA / ANTALYA
It is not yet known when and by whom Alanya was founded for the first time. The oldest known name of the city is Korakesium. In the Byzantine period, it was named Kalanoros. In the 13th century, Allaaddin Keykubat (1200-1237), one of the Anatolian Seljuk Rulers, took the castle and changed the name of the city to Alaiye. Atatürk, who visited the city in 1935, named it Alanya. (The first mention of Korekesium is Scylax, one of the ancient geographers of the 4th century BC. During this period, the region was under the rule of the Persians, who invaded a significant part of Anatolia. Later, the famous ancient writer Strabon, Piri Reis, Seyyep, İbn-i Batuta and Evliya Çelebi are travelers who visited the region and they mention the city in their works.We do not have much information about the first ages of the region and the Byzantine period.In the 7th century AD, city defense gained more importance during the Arab raids, and castle constructions were given priority to protect against raids. Many castles and churches around it are dated to the 6th and 7th centuries AD.
One of the Anatolian Seljuk rulers, Alaaddin Keykubad I, defeated Kyr Vart, who was one of the Christian dynasties and ruled in the Alanya castle, in 1221 and captured the castle. The ruler had a palace built here in his name. The Seljuks used Alanya as a second capital and a winter center, as well as the capital Konya, and engaged in reconstruction activities. Seljuk State was disintegrated and the region was sold to the Mamluk Sultan for five thousand gold by Karamanoğulları in 1471, then it was taken into the borders of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1471, it was joined to the province of Cyprus in 1571 with Tarsus, and in 1864 it became the sanjak of the Konya province. It was connected to Antalya in 1868 and became the district of this province in 1871.
