25.ULUSLARARASI ORTAÇAĞ VE TÜRK DÖNEMİ KAZILARI VE SANAT TARİHİ ARAŞTIRMALARI
AN EVALUATION ON THE SELJUK PERIOD CONSTRUCTION WORK IN ALANYA CASTLE
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Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Yayınları
Anatolia, the cradle of civilizations, has different settlements and harbors on its southern shores. Preserving its importance among these ports, Alanya has assumed the quality of being a center where both strategic and economic dynamism is ensured with its natural harbor located in the east. With these features, the Byzantine-Lusignan-Cilicia Armenian Kingdom has the ability to maintain the traces of the relations as an urban witness within the Seljuk-Mamluk and Ottoman-Venetian relations. Various parameters that form the core of basic needs are needed in order to sustain or advance cultural development. Education, economy and security come first among these parameters. The diverse cultural history of Alanya has required the determination of the settlement history and its cultural relations. It is clear that during the Seljuk period, which was one of the most important periods focused in this framework, the palace in Alanya had an important place because it was the earliest Seljuk Palace known in Anatolia. Ancient period writers such as Scylax, Strabo, Ptolemy and travelers and historians such as Ibni Bibi, Constabl Smbat, Kerümiddin Mahmut Aksarayi and Evliya Çelebi give information about the history of the settlement. Based on this information, the spatial development of the settlement can only be explained by looking at archaeological excavations and existing architectural findings. Although it has been partially interrupted on various dates since 1982, Alanya Castle excavations are sought for answers to questions about the spatial development and transformation of the city. Excavations gained a different dimension with the unearthing of the Palace Bath, which is thought to have been built in addition to the first palace structure known to exist in the Seljuk period. In this article, architectural and minor artifacts unearthed during the 2020 Excavation season will be evaluated. In the article, information is given about the findings obtained from the Köşklü Hamam, the Inner Castle Central Section Sector 2 excavations, the Arasta Cemetery Excavation and the excavations carried out in the South walls, as well as the restoration and conservation works.
