Cambazlı
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| Province (il) : | Mersin | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | Silifke | |||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 35 ' N , 34 ° 2' E | |||
| Height : | 930 m | |||
| Residents : | 574 (2014) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 324 | |||
| Postal code : | 33 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 33 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2015) | ||||
| Mayor : | Mustafa Yılmaz | |||
Cambazlı , also Canbazlı, is a place in the ancient landscape of Cilicia , today in the Silifke district of the Turkish province of Mersin . The place is about 25 km northwest of Kızkalesi on the road that leads to Uzuncaburç . In ancient times it connected the places Korykos and Diokaisareia .
Worth seeing
In the place are the relics of various ancient buildings, which indicate that the place was inhabited in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times. Nothing is known about the ancient name of the place. The buildings include the considerable remains of a Byzantine church. It is a three- aisled gallery basilica from the fifth century, which is enclosed by a wall, for which Roman spoils were used. Richard Bayliss is of the opinion, however, that the wall does not represent the boundary of a Temenos , but the early Byzantine fortification of the church district.
There are also numerous rock graves, sarcophagi and house graves in the area. The most notable of these is in the middle of the village on a hill. The closed side and rear walls are almost up to the height of the roof, a Corinthian column has been preserved at the front , which still carries a fragment of the gable.
Finds from Cambazlı are exhibited in the Silifke Archaeological Museum .
photos
Byzantine basilica
insight
Roman house grave
literature
- Josef Keil , Adolf Wilhelm : Monuments from the Rough Kilikien. (= Monumenta Asiae minoris antiqua vol. 3). London 1931, pp. 33–43, plates 16–20
- Semavi Eyice : La basilique de Canbazlı en Cilicie. Zograf 10, 1979
- Friedrich Hild , Hansgerd Hellenkemper : Kilikien and Isaurien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 5. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1811-2 , p. 223.
- Theodora Stillwell MacKay: CAMBAZLI Rough Cilicia, Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Web links
- Pictures of the church
- Ancient places in the "Rauhen Kilikien" ( Memento from November 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed February 24, 2015
- ↑ Yerelnet
- ^ Richard Bayliss review : Provincial Cilicia and the Archeology of Temple Conversion