GCHF1X Haberler (Traditional Cache) in Türkiye created by Muizebeest

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erik88l-r: Cache gone, cache owner says "SINCE THE LOGBOOK MIGHT BE MISSING, A LOG BY PLACING A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE 'HOLE' (see logs) IS OKAY AS WELL" instead of maintaining the cache.
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Hidden : 12/29/2003

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Micro cache (film canister) at one of the highest places in Alanya, at the castle.

500 m dogs are allowed a buggy will get stuck in the terrain a wheelchair will get stuck in the terrain This cache can not be done on a bike

Alanya is a tourist centre on Turkey's Mediterranean coast 135 kilometres east of Antalya.

Excavations have shown that the Alanya area was inhabited as early as prehistoric times. Alanya first appears in the 2nd century B.C. as a pirate lair and it was known then as Korakesion. The Romans later captured the town in their campaign to suppress piracy in the eastern Mediterranean. The name of the Alanya in antiquity is Corasiceum. It remained an independent city between Pamphylia and Cilicia. The Syrian King Antiochus III. conquered entire Cilicia but could not get hold of Corasiceum. Blinded by their victories and arrogance, the Corasiceans got involved in acts of piracy. The most notorious of the pirates was Tryphon. He was a fearful adversary even for the Roman empire. His men infiltrated the Roman costal towns and abducted women and asked for ransom. The naval commercial lines were all cut off because of the attacks of the pirates. Famine struck the Roman Cities. And that was the last drop, The roman Commander Pompeius chastised the Corasiceans in 67 BC by totally annihilating their fleet as well as all of the pirates. Corasiceum became part of the Roman Empire. It is claimed that Alanya was allocated for Cleopatra by Antonius and that Cleopatra has used the cedar and pine trees of Alanya forest for building a new fleet. In the Byzantine times, Alanya took on the name Kolonoros; meaning the beautiful mountain. It came under Byzantine rule after 395.

In 1220 the Seljuk sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I took the city and had the great castle and dockyards built. Known then as Alaiye, a name derived from that of the sultan, the city was used by the Seljuk's as their naval base in the Mediterranean and it remained an important military post in Ottoman times. A century later the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta visited Alanya and described it thus:

The city of Alaiye is a large town on the seacoast. It is inhabited by Turtkomans and is visited by the merchants of Cairo, Alexandria, and Syria. The district is f well-wooded and wood is exported from there to Alexandria and Damietta, whence it is carried to the other cities of Egypt. There is a magnificent and formidable citadel, built by Sultan Alaeddin at the upper end of the town.

The "magnificent and formidable citadel" was built by Alaeddin Keykubad I in 1226 on the site of an earlier fortress. (Strabo refers to one being here in Roman times.) It consists of three sections: an inner keep, the central castle, and an external redoubt.

The inner keep contains cisterns, the ruins of a Seljuk palace, a fresco-decorated courtyard, military fortifications, and a Byzantine chapel in the middle. At the northwestern corner is a place where prisoners condemned to death were hurled over the precipice by means of catapults. The central castle contains a masjid built in 1230 by Akþebe Sultan as well as her tomb. Suleymaniye Mosque was originally constructed in 1231 but was rebuilt during the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent when an Ottoman arasta (row of shops) was added. There is also a 17th century Ottoman khan.

Nowadays an entrance fee is charged for entering the caste. At the end of 2003 a geocache was placed outside the castle, in the castle-wall. It can be accessed by a small track, starting at the taxi stop at the entrance gate of the castle (don't enter the caste, the geocache is at the outside!). You should walk less than 500 meters.

This cache will be maintained by Nazbeg. SINCE THE LOGBOOK MIGHT BE MISSING, A LOG BY PLACING A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE 'HOLE' (see logs) IS OKAY AS WELL

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