Alanya
THE PEARL of THE MEDİTERRANEAN
Alanya
Alanya is a beautiful holiday centre with its beautiful sandy beaches, modern hotels and motels, as well as numerous fish restaurants, cafes, clubs and bars. The cafes that ring the harbour are popular gathering places for tourists and locals. From the towns lovely park, the road runs along the coast
to the harbour, lined with many small shops that offer handicrafts, leather clothes, jewellery, handbags and the amusing painted gourds that are unique to the area.
The city has changed hands many times over the centuries, and its name has reflected this. Alanya was known in Latin as Coracesium or in Greek as Korakesion from the Luwian Korakassa meaning "point/protruding city". Under the Byzantine Empire it become known as Kalonorosor Kalon Oros, meaning "beautiful/fine mountain" in Greek. The Seljuks renamed the city Alaiye, a derivative of the Sultan Alaeddin Kayqubad I's name. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Italian traders called the city Candelore or Cardelloro. In his 1935 visit, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk finalized the name in the new alphabet as Alanya, changing the 'i' and 'e' in Alaiye, reportedly because of a misspelled telegram in 1933.
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Climate
Alanya has a typicalMediterranean climate. TheMediterranean Basinensures that most rain comes during the winter, leaving the summers long, hot, and dry,prompting the Alanya board of Tourism to use the slogan "where the sun smiles".Storm cells sometimes bring with them fair weatherwaterspoutswhen close to the shore.The presence of the Taurus Mountain...
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Finds in the nearby Kadrini cave indicate occupation during thePaleolithicera as far back as20,000 BC,and archeological evidence shows a port existed at Syedra, south of the modern city, during theBronze Agearound 3,000 BC.APhoenician languagetablet found in the district dates to625 BC, and the city is specifically mentioned in the 4th-century...
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Most of the castle was built in the 13th century under theSeljuqSultanate of Rûmfollowing the city's conquest in 1220 byAlaeddin Keykubad Ias part of a building campaign that included theKızıl Kule. Alanya Castlewas built on the remnants of earlierByzantine eraandRoman erafortifications. After the area was pacified under theOttoman Empire, the
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Alanya is so familier not only with it's attractive streets, nightlife and beautiful scenery, but much more. Because of his location Alanya, we offer you not onlywater sports but some more unique opportunities for activity. Diving is the most highly recommended sport for human being. Environment in Alanya is an
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Alanya is about 2 hours drive from the nearest major international airport inAntalyaand theclosest to the distance between the airport and the center of Alanya, just 125 kmand half an hour from Gazipaşa Airport.Antalya international airport andGazipasa Airport opened for international flights in 2011, and serves a limited, but growing
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