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  • Alara Castle

  • Alara Castle

    Alara Castle is a historic fortification located at Alanya district of Antalya Province in southern Turkey. The castle was built under the Byzantine Empire, and in the 11th century became the western outpost of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
    Archaeological Site
    Alara Castle
    by Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 146 m

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    Alara Castle

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    fortification

    Castles and Fortresses

    Location

    Turkey

    Antalya

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    8th Century AD

    Byzantine

    Armenian + Islamic

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    Byzantine & Armenian & Islamic Monuments

     

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