Alanya Travelguide

Alanya is located on a small peninsula in the north where the Taurus Mountains in the south and the Mediterranean. Because it is in the ancient time on the border line between Pamphylia Zilizien and it was sometimes found among the Zilizien, sometimes among the cities Pamphylia counted.
The documents on the prehistoric period of Alanya are quite low.


The investigations by Prof. Dr. Kılıç Kökten from the year 1957 in the Kadrini cave, 12 km from the city centre, have shown that the history of the region up to the upper Paläolithische time (20.000-17000 BC). It is not yet certain when and who first founded in Alanya. The oldest known name of the city is' Coracäsium '. In the Byzantine period it adopted the name 'Kalonoros'. In the 13th Century was the name of the city with the conquest of the ruler of the Anatolian Seljuk Chen I. Alaaddin (1200-1237) by 'Alaiyye'.


In the year 1935 was Ataturk visited the city the name 'Alanya. The first, the Coracäsium is mentioned Skylaks the ancient Geographiker of 4 Century BC During this time, the region is under the rule of the Persians, which occupied large part of Anatolia. Among the personalities who visited the region and told them their work was the famous ancient writer Strabo Reiser and the Pir-i rice, seyyah-i Ibn Batuta and Evliya Çelebi.


About the Byzantine period in the region, we know nothing much. In the 7th Century AD, the Beschützung the city for the Arab attacks and for the important Wehrung preferred against these attacks is to build fortresses. That is why the most dated fortresses and churches in Alanya and environment in the 6th and 7 Century AD The ruler of the Anatolian Seljuk Chen I. Alaaddin Keykubat, Kyr Vart defeated in 1221, one of the Christian rulers of the castle was Alanya and conquered the castle. The ruler built under his own name a palace. The Seljuk used in addition to the capital, Konya also Alanya as a second capital and as winter quarters and built it.


The attacks of the Mongols in 1243 and the withdrawal of the Egyptian Mameluck in 1277 after the Seljuk Anatolia weakened, in the year 1300 split the Seljuk state and the region went under the power of Karamanoğulları. Alanya was founded in 1427 by the Karamanoğulları for five thousand gold to the

Memlucken Sultan sold later it was at the time of Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1471 under the limits of the Ottoman Empire. Alanya, was founded in 1571 with Tarsus in the province of Cyprus connected and in 1864 it became the district of Konya district. In 1868 concluded that Alanya in Antalya and in 1871 it became a municipality of this city.