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General information The southern cost of Turkey is one of the world’s most beautiful regions: sandy beaches offering eight month of swimming, wonderful landscapes and numerous historic sites. The region, which spread along 100-200 kilometer wide belt between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, has been a focal point of interaction, commercial relations and political confrontations throughout the history of mainland. Since the dawn of man this region has witnessed the founding of heavily populated cities and the area itself became rich and prosperous. A period if decline set in due to the decreasing importance of the Mediterranean in world trade, the devastation caused by earthquakes, the deterioration of waterways and the spreading of malaria. As a result; the fertile plains were abandoned and became little bit more than winter quarters of nomads. In resent decades, this region has regained its former significance with the improvement and promotion of commercial agriculture and tourism. Especially Antalya, the so called the capital of tourism of the Turkish Riviera developed and expanded rapidly. The peaks of magnificent Taurus mountain range, covered with snow in both summer and winter, form the southern border of Central Anatolia and extend towards the east, hugging the shores of the Mediterranean itself. To the south of these mountains, the long white sandy beaches, the bays and coves surrounded by pine forests and the turquoise colored sea make this one of the most prominent tourism resorts of Turkey. But tourism is not is only economic activity. Thanks to its temperate climate, the region has a rich and abundant agriculture and produce citrus fruits, bananas, avocados, cotton, vegetables and flowers. Situated at the coast of the Mediterranean Alanya is spread over a green plateau that plunges dramatically into the sea. Its glorious sandy beaches Cleopatra in the west and Orange beach in the east are several kilometers long and are lapped with crystal clear waters.
History Up to Now It is not yet known by whom or when Alanya was built. As a city, it first appeared in history during the antiquity. In the antique era Alanya was situated between the boundaries of Pamfilya and Kilikya, and was sometimes considered to be a city of Kilikya and sometimes a city of Pamfilya. Heredot states the people that lived in the region between Pamfilya and Kilikya one descendants of people who spread to Anatolia after the Trojan war. The first historical name of Alanya is Coracesium. The person who mentioned the name of 'Coracesium' for the first time in history was 4th B.C. geographer Skylaks. At that time this region was under the invasion of the Persians. After some time the city become an important centre for the Mediterranean pirates and got strong enough to resist the Roman navy and became a base of the frightening pirate of the Mediterranean: Dryphon. Although VII. Antiochus, the Selefkian king of the Syrian region, conquered the city in 139 B.C., Coracesium continued to be a home for the pirates for some more time. In 65 B.C., the city became a part of Rome after a naval attack by the Roman Commander, Magnus Pompeius. Following the collapse of Rome, the city went through the Byzantium era and had a new name; Kalonoros which means beautiful mountain, that was given by the sailors. In the 7th century the city resisted the Arabian invasion by strengthening its walls. When the crusaders conquered Istanbul and established the Latin Empire instead of the Byzantium in 1204, one of the feudal lords, Kyr Vart, who benefited from the lack of authority in Anatolia, took the control of Kalonoros. In 1221, The Selcuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat, seized the control of the city that he had besieged for some time, without fighting against Kyr Vart, who surrendered. Alaaddin Keykubat got married to Kyr Vart's daughter and had the city reconstructured and made it a winter capital city for the Selcuks. He gave the city, the name of Alanya after his own name. With its magnificent monuments and historical structure, Alanya, founded by Alaaddin Keykubat has been given the status of World Culture and Heritage nominee city by the United Nations science, culture and art institution; Unesco. Alanya, which had its most brilliant era during the reign of Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat , began to be controlled by Karamanoğulları principality whose centre was Konya, after the collapse of the Selcuk State in 1300.They made Alaiye a part of Memluk State in Egypt in 1427, in return for 5.000 gold. Alaiye was made a part of the Ottoman Empire in 1471 by Gedik Ahmet Pasha, who was one of the commanders of Fatih, the Conqueror. The Ottomans made Alanya a part of Cyprus State in 1571 and then a part of the principality of Konya and finally that of Antalya in 1868 and in 1871 it was an administrative district of Antalya. The city was given the name the name of Alanya in 1933 with the suggestion of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of The Republic of Turkey. Alanya was an agricultural city, depending on the production of citrus fruits and bananas in the first half of the 20th century, whereas it became a centre of national tourism activities based on health due to the refreshing air of Damlataş Cave in 1950s. The tourist movement of the city gained an international dimension, improving at a great pace with the help of its historical background and natural beauties. Today, Alanya is one of the biggest tourist centres of the Mediterranean with its capacity over 100 thousand beds used for tourists. The most remarkable characteristic of Alanya, making it different from other tourist centres of the world and particularly from the Mediterranean is that the city centre has become a big holiday resort where all kinds of services and goods are available. There are lots of options as for accommodation facilities, places for entertainment and shopping centres in Alanya and its vast beaches are at your service without any payments, ensuring the quality of the International Blue Flag.
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