ALANYA Alanya City When books are written it is not all towns that can brag of having pirates, queens and great war lords as main characters – Alanya can! In its early years Alanya was a small town discovered by pirates where the inhabitants existed mainly by farming and trading. The town, which at that time was named Coracesium, did not really start to grow until the arrival of Alaaddin Keykubat who, after five years of trying,finally conquered the town in 1226. He soon brought about the final construction of Alanya Castle and changed the name of the town to Alaiye, which means the town of Alaaddin. The name Alanya did not appear until 1934 when Turkey’s president at that time, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, visited the town. He did not like the name Alaiye and changed it to Alanya. Other prominent visitors who should be mentioned are Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and the Roman Emperor Mark Antony. According to legend, they spent their honeymoon in Alanya, after which Mark Antony gave the town to his wife as a present. Thereafter she had the many huge forests felled and the wood sent back to Egypt, where it was used for the construction of warships. 1. Alanya Castle  2. Alanya shipyard  3. Keykubat Statue  4. Damlatas Cave  5. Atatürk Statue  6. Alanya Museum  7. The Red Tower  8. Dim Cave  9. Dim River  10. Syedra     SunlifeImmobilien|Real Estate Services,  Keykubat Cad. Aytap Sok.   Kalan Apt. No:173 /D   Alanya/ANTALYA   Tel : +90 242 512 65 97  Fax :  +90 242 511 25 14 E-mail : info@sunlife-immobilien.com