Kurtkulağı Kervansaray
Coordinates: 36 ° 55 ′ 25 ″ N , 35 ° 53 ′ 8 ″ E
The Ottoman caravanserai Kurtkulağı Kervansaray (also Menzilhan) is located in the village of Kurtkulağı in the district of Ceyhan in the Turkish province of Adana .
The caravanserai was built in 1659 by Hüseyin Pascha under the Ottoman Grand Vizier Riistem Pascha . The architect was Mehmet Ağa. It has a rectangular floor plan of 47.75 meters × 23.60 meters.
The caravanserai was on the caravan route that ran from Istanbul to Aleppo in Syria and on to Egypt . The rest area ( mansio ) Tardequeia was already located here in Roman times . A fragment of a milestone with a Latin inscription was found in nearby Narlıören. Tardequeia is mentioned in various Roman itineraries , for example in the Itinerarium Antonini and the Itinerarium Burdigalense .
The building was restored in 2006.
Web links
- Kurtkulağı Kervansarayı (Turkish) ( Memento from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Turkish Daily News on the opening
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh: The Image Of An Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience In Aleppo In The 16th And 17th Centuries . Brill, 2001 p. 113 ISBN 9789004124547
- ↑ Sign of the restoration authority Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü
- ^ Itinerarium Antonini Augusti et Hierosolymitanum Lyon Public Library p. 274 at GoogleBooks
- ↑ Otto Cuntz, Gerhard Wirth (ed.): Itineraria Romana: Itineraria Antonini Augusti et Burdigalense . Walter de Gruyter, 1990 p. 93 ISBN 9783519042730 on GoogleBooks