Alanya is a district of Antalya province. 135 km from Antalya. away.

Its population is 500,022 (2016). Antalya is the second largest city of the province.

Alanya is a rare and beautiful historical city that hosted pirates in ancient times and feudal lords during the Byzantine period and finally became the capital city during the Anatolian Seljuks period. Alanya was located between Pamphylia and Klikya in ancient times. According to Heradot, the people of this region are descendants of the people who dispersed to Anatolia after the Trojan war. In the researches (Kadıini Cave-1957), it was understood that the first settlement dates back to the upper paleotic period 20 thousand years ago. Its first known name in history is Coracesium. It is under the invasion of the Persians in the 4th century BC. It later became a shelter for pirates. Although the king of Seleki invaded the city in 139 BC, he could not escape from being the shelter of the pirates. The city, which was added to the territory of the Roman Empire by the Roman commander Magnus Pompeius in 65 BC, became Kalonoros in the meaning of “beautiful mountain” in the Byzantine period with the collapse of Rome. .

In 1204, when the Crusader armies established the Latin Empire in Istanbul, an authority gap arose in Anatolia. Kyr Vart, a feudal lord, ensured hegemony over Kalonoros. The city was captured by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat in 1221. Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat married the daughter of the feudal lord Kyr Vart and renovated the city and made it the winter capital. He changed the name of the city to Alaiye. During the time of Alaaddin Keykubat, the city experiences its brightest days. Today’s castle, shipyard and many of the still standing structures are from that period.

As a result of the dissolution of the Anatolian Seljuks in 1300, the city falls under the sovereignty of the Karamanoğlu Principality. Konya-based Karamanoğulları sold the city to the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate in 1427 for 5 thousand gold. Finally, with the establishment of unity in Anatolia and the prominence of the Ottoman Principality, Alaiye was included in the Ottoman Empire by Gedik Ahmet Pasha, one of the commanders of Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1471. During the Ottoman Empire, Alaiye was first annexed to the state of Cyprus (1571), then to the province of Konya (1864), then to the Antalya sanjak (1868) and finally to the district of Antalya in 1871.

With the Republic, it takes the name of Alanya with the suggestion of Mustafa Kemal.

Must see places :

Alanya Castle, Kaleiçi, Süleymaniye Mosque and Caravanserai.
There is also an Ethnography Museum within the Red Tower, this beautiful hexagonal Seljuk structure made of 33 meters high red brick.
Selcuklu Shipyard
Damlataş Cave, average temperature 22 ° C and 96% humidity.
Dim Cave is 350 meters long.
Ehmedek is the place where you can see Alanya most clearly.
Dim tea
Phosphorus Cave
Pirates Cave
Alanya Plateau
Andızlı Mosque
Alanya Suleymaniye Mosque

Alanya has an important share in the tourism of the country. Thanks to the tourism breakthrough that started in the 1980s, the city has taken its current form. In the district, where apart hotels were concentrated at first, today there are many types and types of touristic facilities, from facilities with a capacity of 1,000 to gigantic facilities with a capacity of 3,500 people.

Alanya is on a peninsula surrounded by the Western Taurus Mountains rising right next to it and the Mediterranean Sea on the other side. There are pine and cedar trees in the Taurus Mountains. The region is green in all seasons. Orange trees, banana gardens follow them, and New World gardens. The city environment is literally surrounded by caves. Dim cave on land, Damlataş Cave; The pirates cave and phosphorous caves attract people in the sea. Alanya is a place where you can swim along its 70 km coast.

The locals of Alanya go to the plateau in the summer. On the plateau, which is reached after an hour’s journey in Alanya, the scorching heat is replaced by cool and oxygen-rich air. Today, the plateaus have become a breathing place for people from Alanya and tourists.

Dim Stream
Oba Tea
Turbelinans Plateau
Gedevet Plateau
Sogut Plateau
Derekoy Plateau
Gölbeleni Plateau (belonging to Tosmur)
Söbübiçen Plateau
Gökbel Plateau
Sedre Camping-picnic area