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The castle is located 250 metres (820 ft) high on a rocky peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean Sea, which protects it from three sides. The wall which surrounds the castle is 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) long and includes 140 towers. 400 different cisterns were built to serve the castle. [ 1 ]
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Castles in Turkey were built in the Ancient and Medieval Times. The Turkish names for castle are kale , şato and hisar . Thus the names of some castles have -kale or -hisarı suffixes.
Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes (Akçakoca Castle, Amasra Castle, Çandarlı Castle, Çeşme Castle, Foça Castle, Galata Tower, Güvercinada Castle, Sinop Castle, Yoros Castle) 14/04/2020: II,IV (Eight forts and one tower in coastal Turkey) Van Fortress, the Mound and the Old City of Van: 13/04/2016: II, III, IV, VI: Van
Alanya (/ ə ˈ l ɑː n j ə / ⓘ; Turkish pronunciation:), formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city, a municipality and district of Antalya Province, Turkey. [2] It is on the southern coast of Turkey, in the country's Mediterranean Region, 133 kilometres (83 mi) east of the city of Antalya.
At least 2,818 buildings have collapsed, including a 2,000-year-old castle and a mosque dating back to 1247 Before and after pictures show scale of devastation caused by Turkey earthquake - OLD ...
Sandringham House also happens to be the location where Queen Elizabeth II delivered her first televised Christmas message in 1957—25 years after her grandfather, King George V, made the first ...
Alaiye (علائیه) is the medieval Seljuq name for Alanya (on the southern coast of Turkey). It refers to the city-state in a specific period and the beylik which developed around there, at times under the Karamanid dynasty. After the 1242 Battle of Köse Dağ, the Seljuqs lost control of the city, and it became semi-autonomous.