Alanya, formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and district of Antalya Province on the southern coast of Turkey. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 98,627, while the district that includes the city and its built-up region had an area of 1,598. 51 km2 and 248,286 inhabitants. Alanya has been a local stronghold for many Mediterranean-based empires, including the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires.
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Alanya, formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and district of Antalya Province on the southern coast of Turkey. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 98,627, while the district that includes the city and its built-up region had an area of 1,598. 51 km2 and 248,286 inhabitants. Because of its natural strategic position, Alanya has been a local stronghold for many Mediterranean-based empires, including the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. The city has changed hands many times over the centuries, and its name has reflected this. In 2014 Mayor Adem Murat Yücel unseated Hasan Sipahioğlu, of the Justice and Development Party, who had previously led the city since 1999. The Mediterranean climate, natural attractions, and historic heritage make Alanya a popular destination for tourism, and responsible for nine percent of Turkey’s tourism sector and thirty percent of foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey. Finds in the nearby Karain Cave indicate occupation during the Paleolithic era as far back as 20,000 BC, and archeological evidence shows a port existed at Syedra, south of the modern city, during the Bronze Age around 3,000BC. The castle rock was likely inhabited under the Hittites and the Achaemenid Empire, and was first fortified in the Hellenistic period following the area’s conquest by Alexander the Great.
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. It was known in Latin as Coracesium or in Greek as Korakesion from the Luwian Korakassa meaning \”pointprotruding city\”. Under the Byzantine Empire it became known as Kalonoros or Kalon Oros, meaning \”beautifulfine mountain\” in Greek. Its largest rebellion was in 404 AD, with the largest rebellion being from 404 to 408 AD, when it became a bishop. The Roman Republic fought Cilician pirates in 102 BC, when Marcus Vatator established the Isaurian banditry in nearby Side, and in 78 BC under Servus Vatators. In 67 BC the city’s incorporation into the Pamphylia province by Pompey Pompey fought in the Battle of Korakesian Strabo. The Romans and tribes revolted in the fourth and fifth centuries under the Romans, and revolted against the tribes in the 4th and 5th centuries. Alanya remained an issue of issue for the Romans and the tribes until the 6th century, when the city became an issue to the Roman Catholic Church. It is located on a small peninsula into the Mediterranean Sea below the Taurus Mountains.
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