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City of Antalya in Turkey



About Antalya
Antalya (formerly known as Adalia or Otalia, from the Greek Albamvelah: Αττάλεια Attaleia) is a city located on the Mediterranean coast in the south-western Turkey, the capital of the province of Antalya. Located on the coastal slopes, surrounded by mountains. Transformed development and investment, which, starting from the seventies, the city into a major international resort.

Date of Antalya
The body is not known when the current site of the first time. It was believed that Attalos II, king of Pergamum, is one of the foundations of the city throughout the year 150 BC and named Otalia and selected "as a naval base for his fleet strong. However, excavations in 2008 in Antalya Jaraja dojo is starting from the third century BC, which indicates that the city was founded earlier than previously thought. Antalya became part of the Romanian republic in 133 BC when King Attalos III of administration of his kingdom to Rome after his of death. city grew and prospered during the old Romania.

Christianity began to spread in the region after the second century. Paul of Tarsus visited Antalya, as recorded in the Book of Acts: "From Perga, Paul and Barnabas went to Atalay, and from there went to Antioch in the sea, where they became a Muslim, who was in the grace of God for the work, Akmlah" (Acts 14 :25-26).

Antalya was one of the largest cities of the Byzantine Empire. Was the capital of the Byzantine Carpesne province, which occupies the southern coast of Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands. In the reign of Emperor John II Comnenus (1118) was the site of Otalia is isolated against the Turks, accessible only by sea. The following year, with the help of his commander, General John Oksc, John Paul II led the Turks from the land routes to Antalya and connect the city with the rest of the empire.

Seljuk Turks captured the city from the surrounding area, in the early thirteenth century. The capital of the province of Antalya Belek Turkey-a-Tiki (1321-1423) and even in the hands of the Ottomans. Please note that the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta who came to the city between 1335-1340:

In the second half of the seventeenth century, wrote a preliminary چ LBE from the city of its narrow streets, and contains more than 3,000 houses in twenty Turkish neighborhood of the neighborhoods and Oarbah Greek. Adults outside the city walls, and it was reported that the port was the carrying capacity of up to 200 boats.

In the eighteenth century, along with most of Anatolia and the emperor, "Derry Bay" (the land of the Lord, or landowners). Families adapt Ihsanoglu living near Perga, though reduced in 1812 Radwkhha Mahmud II, continues to be a competitive force in the Ottoman governor, and even in this generation, and the origin of life for many years after the fall of other major Beys of Anatolia. Reports of the Levant (Turkey) Company, which is supported by the Agency in Antalya until 1825, and documented the local beys.

In the nineteenth century the population increased in Antalya, because the Turks from the Caucasus and the Balkans moved into Anatolia. In 1911, the city has about 25,000 people, including many Christians and Jews who still live in separate rooms on the walls of the port. The port served as the Coast ships to local companies. Antalya (then Adalia city) was fantastic, but the construction was bad. Main points of attraction for visitors was the wall of the city, parks, and some up to date. It's all government agencies and home premium is Allosoar.

Occupied the city for some time occupied the Italians at the end of World War I and before the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923.

The origin of the word Antalya
According to the 2007 census, the population of Antalya 775,157 (388,133 men, women, and 387.024). Large urban area with more than a million people in the winter, a significant increase in the summer months. Where not only frequented by foreign tourists, Voadha many Turks speak for the rest

Geographically, Antalya


Antalya is located in south-western Anatolia, on the Gulf of Antalya on the Mediterranean Sea, about 244 km, about 244 kilometers (152 miles) from Ankara, 0.255 kilometers (158 miles) 255 km away from Adana 0.222 km 222 km (138 miles) from Izmir 0.300 kilometers (186 miles) 300 km from Istanbul.

The form of the Taurus Mountains in southern Anatolia, a parallel set of the Mediterranean Sea towards the East and West, which led to the formation of narrow coastal plain surrounded by mountains on three sides by the sea, and on the fourth. Lower parts of the coast mountains to the sea abruptly, and the small bays and semi-island. Antalya is situated on a plain where the mountains recede from the shore, and consists of two flat parts of the travertine rock with an average altitude of 35 m (115 ft), located in the heart of the city on a rocky plateau, close to the shore, and with the expansion of urban areas into so easily Kypezosto.

Climate Antalya
Protect the region from the cold north winds Taurus mountain range and has a typical Mediterranean climate, hot dry summers and warm wet winters. There are about 300 sunny days a year, starting with sea temperatures ranging from 15 to 28 years may be as high temperature up to 40 in July and August. And helps the sea breeze and the north wind, so that when the temperature rises more likely.

Antalya Economy
Antalya's economy is based on a combination of tourism, agriculture and trade, with some light industry. Agricultural production includes citrus fruit, cotton, flowers, olives, olive oil and bananas. Food market town of the municipality of Antalya is 65% of the needs of fruit and vegetables fresh for Turkey

Tourism in Antalya
Turn on the tourist attractions, natural and historic sites on the Turkish Riviera, Antalya Airport, which made one of the busiest in the Mediterranean region. Keeps in the historic city center (Kaleiçi), with its hotels and Hanath and clubs and restaurants, and markets much of the historical character of the city, and received the Gold Award Apple, to restore tourism.

The city contains the objects affected by the architecture, culture and Allikih Alpmvilih, and Greek, but mainly in architecture and culture of Romania, Byzantine and Ottoman Alslogih.

Republic Square is the city's main square, was discovered in some cases, temporary special exhibitions and performances in the open.

Kaleici long, narrow cobbled streets and houses of the Turkish and Greek history, the historical center of Antalya, now mainly hotels, gift shops, and bars. New hotels such as Sheraton, stretching along the coast of Antalya top areas, the beaches of Lara.

Dining in Antalya
Includes kitchen Antalya Paez (make tahina, garlic, nuts, cooked beans), Hebes hot mixture with the cumin and tahini, Covey tender, tender kebabs, Domates Sevici, Chkhuckh, and various cold Mediterranean dishes with olive oil. Privacy is a local, lupine seeds cooked, eaten as a snack. "Gereida" (also known as Lagos or white Mediterranean sea bass) is a common fish in local dishes.

Festivals and events in the Antalya

There are a number of sports championships including motor racing.
Festival Antalya Golden Orange Film: This is the largest national film festival in Turkey, will be held in the last week of September
Eurasia International Film Festival every year Dolaaakd
Antalya Festival: September
The Mediterranean International Music Festival: October, 6 days
Antalya International festival of folk dance music of the competition: in the last week of August
Festival Aspendos International Opera and Ballet in June and July
Mayflower Festival
Landmark

Antalya Antalya beaches of them, Lara and Karbozkadran. For winter sports, this is Saklikent Beydağları resorts and natural beauty of the city.

A large number of mosques, churches and religious schools, and baths in the city. Kaleici, harbor, city walls from which to conclude the oldest part of town. Kaleici contains many historic buildings with traditional architecture, local Turkish and Greek.

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