HISTORY OF ANTALYA, TURKEY

Our next stop in the World Travel will be Antalya, Turkey. Antalya attracts many tourists with its history and its natural beauty. For now, here is a short history of this lovely and lively city, Antalya. Enjoy...

Antalya is a beautiful Mediterranean city with its sandy beaches caressed by the turquoise sea. In this city, you can witness the evolution of civilizations of the Romans, Byzantines, Seljuk Turks and Ottomans.

In 150 BC, Attalos II, king of Pergamon, founded the city Attalia (Antalya) to base his powerful naval fleet. In 133BC, Antalya became part of the Roman Republic. The city prospered in the Ancient Roman period. Christianity started to spread in the region after 2nd century. The city later became a naval base for the Christian Crusades.

Antalya became a major city during the Byzantines period. Until the city was conquered by the Seljuk Turks in the early 13th century, it was an isolated outpost against the Turks accessible only by sea.

In the 18th century, Antalya’s actual lord was a Dere Bey. The family of Tekkeoglu rivaled the Ottoman governor, surviving by many years until the fall of the other great Beys of Anatolia. The city was briefly occupied by the Italians at the end of the First World War until the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

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