• Main Gate
• “Arap evliyası” and Hellenistic city walls
• Ehmedek citadel
• Citadel mosque (Süleymaniye Mosque)
• Bedesten (covered baazar building) and caravanserai
• Akşebe Tekke
• Inner Citadel
• Byzantine church
• Mint, monastery and tower
• Damlataş cave

In Alanya, the a lot of important barrio are ‘Kizilkule’ (29 meters in bore and 33 meters in height) and shipyard (57 meters in breadth and 40 meters in depth). That shipyard is consisted of 5 entablature departments. The roof has windows-like holes in adjustment to let the sun appliance in. Castle-Mosque, Bedesten (Market-place), abbey of Sultan Aksebe, all accord to the Seljuk and Ottoman Periods. The debris of the Alcazar of Sultan Kezkubat are over the acropolis abreast the Castle.

Alanya is anchored to the east of the arena we are introducing in here. The arresting bastion hill, which has a acme of 300m. is absolute impressive. This acropolis is amid on a peninsula, which looks like the southward addendum of the mountains which accept appear absolute abutting to the sea. Today, the breadth advised as one of the foremost centres of Turkish tourism is covered with assistant and citrus bake-apple plantations. It is accepted that the city-limits was aforetime alleged “Korakassa/Karakassa” acceptation “Point/Protruding City” in the Luwian/Etruscan language. It is empiric that afterwards this name was acclimatized to the Hellenic accent and afflicted into Korakession.

Alaaddin Keykubat, the Turkish Seljuk Sultan, who besieged the Breastwork Korekession in 1221, accepted the city-limits folk to abandonment the city. However, the amount of the Turkish soldiers was alone one fifth of the city’s population.

The Sultan appear to the city-limits folk that if they did not abandonment the city, he would advance the city-limits with an army of 100,000 soldiers and ruin and abort the city. He aswell accepted some time to the Korekession King and rulers.

The night afore the endure day, Turks aggregate afore the walls of the breastwork in the black of night, with torches angry assimilate the horns of bags of goats. The Korekession King and rulers of the city, cerebration that the Turkish army would advance with abundant force, surrendered the city-limits to the Turks.

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