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Cradle Cave ;
Cradle cave where is one of the most important finding
of “Seleukeia Pieria” or in other words “Seleukeia at
Pieria” antique city is located 300 hectares area at
Samandağ Çevlik village is burial grounds complex wich
area chased to rock all over.Its described by 18 th and
19 th century travelers as Kings Vault at travel books.
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St. Simeon Monastery;It was built on the hill which is 479 m. high, in
the area of the town of Akpınar of Samandağ. The
Monastery, built in the sixth century A.D, has a stone
column in the middle of octagon courtyard . St. Simon
came to there in 541 B.C. and died in 592 B.C. It is
believed that he had lived on this column until he died.
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Harbiye (Daphne);It’s 10 kilometers away from Antioch. Springs that come
to light from the south side of the valley,
reach to the Asi River after constructing
waterfalls. The region that is known called
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Defne, which was famous for its waterfalls, and used
for summer resort, also had a fame of it’s wooden houses
made by the rich people, temples and entertainment
places in that era. In the era of Emperor Gallus,
Harbiye began to lose its magnificence, and never
returned to its famous times after the Arab invasion.
Today , Harbiye is one of the most important
entertainment and holiday tourism center with its
restaurants each of which has 300-500 people quota.
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Selevkeia Pierria ( Çevlik) Ruins ;It is in the border Kapısuyu Village of
Samandağ. It is established by Selevkoses in order
to be capital of the country. However, the defense
of the city was weak, and could easily be attacked
by foreign languages. Thus, Antioch established and
it became capital of the Country. Selevkeia
developed as a trade city because of its wide coast.
The city had its brilliant days in the period of
Rome.
In the city there are antique harbor
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Antioch City Walls ;Antioch city wall was built by Emperor Justinyen in 526 A.D. In ancient times ,
Antioch was surrounded by high city walls. In
Selevkos and Rome periods, the higher city walls
were built and there were 360 watchman tower and
there were a main castle at the top of the
mount.
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There are only a little remnants of city walls left
and the main castle is a ruin , too.
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Habib-i Neccar Mosque;It is the first mosque built in Anatolia
and Islam is spread from Antioch to
Anatolia.Habib-i Neccar
Mosque was built by Ebu Ubeyde Bin Cerrah
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636 A.D..Habib-i Neccar i
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He was a holy person who was praised in
the sura of Yaseen of the holy book Quran.His tomb is in
the mosque and it is believed that the graves of the
disciples of Jesus;Yuhanna,Pavlos and Semun Safa are
also in this mosque
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Turbe of Hızır ;There are many turbes built in the name of Hızır in
Antioch and Samandağ. But most famous one is the
Turbe of Hızır at the coast of Samandağ which is
believed that Hızır and Moses met with.
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Ulu Mosque;
It is near
Ata Bridge in the centre of Antioch and it is the second oldest
mosque of Antioch. It is predicted that it is an art of Memluk
period. From legends it is predicted that the mosque and its
minaret were restored in different periods.There are
some Ottoman mosques; Mahremiye Mosque,Nakip Mosque,Yeni
Mosque, Civelek
Mosque, Meydan mosque
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and Seyh Ali
Mosque.There are two types of mosque style; domed and wooden
roof styles.
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The Orthadox Church (St Pierre
and St Paul);
The Church which is on the street of Hurriyet is begun
to build in about 1860 but it suffered damged in the 1872
earthquake, it was rebuilt in about 1900.
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The Catholic Church;The house
which it’s deed was given to Catholic
Monks and has functioned as a Catholic Church since
restored in 1991,is an example of classical Antioch
architecture.Monk of the church Domenico at the age of 71
defines Antioch in those words;The earliest disciples came here
and lived here.For Christians, Antioch is sequential holy city
after Jerusalem and Rome follows Antioch.
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The Protestant Church;Altough
there is no recorded Protestant,with the monetary aid of
South Korean Protestants,the Antioch house restored and
transformed into a
church which is about 50 mt distance from Governorship of
Hatay. The Church which built with stone, functioned as French
ambassador and a French bank
in the French period. In 2000,it was begun to function as
the Protestant Church by South Korea Kwong Lim Metodist Church.
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Synagogue;It is predicted that the building was built about
1700s.The holly Torah, in the Havra was written on the surface
of leather of gazella
in Hebrew and
has a history about 500 years.
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Vakıflı; Village of Armenian;It is a small,green village
on the South of Hatay.It is the unique village of Turkey
that all of its citizens are Armenian.Although it is a
small village it has a worldwide fame that attracts attention of
diplomats of European Unions(EU). The ambassador of EU
commission of Turkey,Kreschmer and two parliamentaries of EU
visited the village and even american CNN and german Deutsche
Welle visited it.
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Meydan Bath ;
Meydan Bath is a building from the Seljuk period.It has
been renovated from 1122 onwards at different times by three
architects,Cafer Aga,Süleyman Eyyubi and İshak Aga.
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Streets Antakya ;
Streets in Antakya which is typical model of Helenistic
age are improved subjected to grate plan which divides each
other vertically.
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Long Bazaar ;
Authentic bazaar which every kind of utility goods such
as local products and handmade and spices are found in Antakya.
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Antioch’s Tyche ;
This 8cm.long bronze statue is found around Mağaracık
village in Samandağ. It's the work of Eutychides who was one of the famous
sculptor of Hekenistic period.The statue was dated from Roman
time.
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Bayezid-I Bestami ;
Rumour has it that Bayezid-I Bestami who has been gone
to 45 times hadj sells his hadjes against one bread and feeds
bread to a dog and goes to Greek land i.e Antakya where
Christians live and one of Christian Monastery on Amanos hills
and probably Darb-I Sak or Trapesak Castle which its name at
this period ,and a castle which located on apex near Alabeyli
Village of today.
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Payas Sokullu Mehmet Pasha Complex ;It is in the town of Payas of Dörtyol.
S.M. Pasha Kulliye which was built by the architect Sinan in
1574, is an example of the Ottoman architecture. In the Kulliye
; there are caravansary with shop, historical Ottoman soup
kitchen, Turkish bath, mosque and madrasah.
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Bakras Castle ;
Fort Bakras is located at the tap area of the Bakras
Village on the 27th km of the Antakya –İskenderun
road.The fortress has been built on a steep hill between the
mountains at the west side of the path to the
village.Considering Strabon’s opinions on this fortress,it must
be quite ancient.The fortress first served the purpose of
protection of the Belen passage entrance and capital city
Seleuicos after the foundation of Antakya.It was also the most
significant northern spot of defense of the Princedom of Antakya
during the age of the Crusaders.
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Girl’s palace ;
Its on Reyhanlı-Halep road (at no man’s land).Its
supposed that this place is center for keeping the region under
control and belong to Byzantine times.It is entered from passage
which consist of bilateral cut large block stones to the
entrance of the place.Entrance section was destroyed.A tower
which have high square plan exists at center section.
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Darb-ı Sak Castle;
Derb or Darb (El-Darb) means passage road in Arabic.Sak
means mountain foot,part adjacent to valley and slope.Darb-I Sak
castle draws attention as place which Persian King Darius has
been established headquarters against Alexander the great before
Issos War on B.C 333.
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Payas Castle ;
It is at west of Sokullu Social Complex in Payas.There
is destroyed castle in this place at one time. Payas port which
was constructed at beach was built again by removing castle and
moat in 1567 for security of shipyard.
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Yenişehir lake ;
it is on Antakya-Cilvegözü road.It is 40 km far away
from Antakya. It is antique period settlement place which is
used as picnic area now.
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Isos (Epifenya) Remains ( Ruins) ;
The region where the kink of Persia Darius III. And King
of Macedonia Alexander The Great fought in about 333 B.C, was
founded in the Hellenistic era and maintained its existence
through the Rome period. Today, there are antique city ruins and
aqueducts in the area.
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Aççana Ruins ;It is a hillock which exists in the 22.th kilometer
of Antioch-Rayhanlı highway. It consists of 30 thousand
square meters land, and in its 10.082 square meters part
archeological excavating was made by British Museum between
1936- 1938, consequently 17 layers of cultural periods were
revealed. Today, in the field of ruins, there are some remnants
of palaces of Yamhad King Yarım- Lim in the seventh layer and
King Niğme-pa in the fourth layer.
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