Honaz Dağı
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 Honaz Dağı |
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| height | 2528 m | |
| location | Denizli Province , Turkey | |
| Mountains | Taurus Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 40 '43 " N , 29 ° 17' 5" E | |
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| Type | extinct volcano | |
| particularities | highest point in the Aegean region | |
The Honaz Dağı is a 2,528 m high mountain in the province of Denizli in southwestern Turkey , 17 km southeast of the provincial capital Denizli and 3 km southwest of the city of the same name, Honaz . It is also the highest point in the Aegean region . From Honaz Dağı, the Gölgeli Dağları Mountains stretch further south and reach an altitude of 2,419 m in Bozdağ and 2,241 m in Kızılhisar Dağı . The Akdağ Mountains stretch further west from Honaz Dağı and reach an altitude of 2,308 m in Babadağ and Karcı Dağı
The mountain is covered with forests, which are particularly dense, especially on the northern side of the mountain. A project by the former mayor of Honaz, Recep Yazıcıoğlu, to build a ski area has so far not been realized.
The Honaz water is also stored on the Honaz Dağı.
history
The Honaz Daği was the scene of an attack on the French crusade army during the Second Crusade , in whose wake were the French King Louis VII and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine . The main sources for the events on Mount Honaz Dağı are reports by Odo von Deuil and William of Tire . The more detailed report comes from the royal chaplain Odo von Deuil, who accompanied Ludwig during the crusade. He names the Aquitan nobleman Gottfried von Rancon and Count von Maurienne, an uncle of Ludwig, as the commander of the armed vanguard. Against the order of the king, the vanguard began to cross the Honaz Dağı when they had reached the foot of the mountain around noon and until then no enemy forces had shown themselves. The vanguard moved further and further away from the main group of crusaders, which was followed by an armed rearguard under the orders of Ludwig. When the Turkish army attacked the main force, only Ludwig with his rearguard was able to rush to the rescue and was defeated in the process. Wilhelm von Tire's report on the events on Mount Honaz Dağı is far less detailed, he only names Gottfried von Rancon as the person responsible. Eleanor of Aquitaine, who later chroniclers was accused of a major complicity in the destruction of the French crusade army, is not mentioned in either of the two chronicles. Reports of the crusade that emerged later claim, disregarding the main sources, that it was Eleanor, traveling with the vanguard, who caused Gottfried von Rancon to act differently than ordered.
literature
- Daniela Laube: Ten chapters on the history of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main / New York 1984, ISBN 3-261-03476-9 .
- Ralph V. Turner: Eleanor of Aquitaine - Queen of the Middle Ages , CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63199-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Turkey map of the Faculty of Geography at Ankara University
- ^ Turner, p. 113
- ↑ Laube, pp. 37-38
