Selçuk Citadel
| Selçuk Citadel | ||
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 Selçuk Citadel from the south |
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| Creation time : | around 6th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Cuboid | |
| Place: | Selçuk | |
| Geographical location | 37 ° 57 '20 " N , 27 ° 22' 5" E | |
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The citadel of Selçuk is located on Ayasoluk Hill in Selçuk in the province of İzmir on the Turkish Aegean coast.
history
The first settlement to be assigned to Ephesus was probably on the hill Ayasoluk . It was on the slope of the castle hill. Whether it was identical to Apasa , the temporary capital of Arzawa , mentioned in Hittite sources , is disputed. After the port of Ephesus silted up again in the seventh century AD and the city was threatened by invasions by the Arabs, the Byzantines relocated the place again to the area around the hill, where the church of St. John was built in the sixth century . The construction date of the fortress cannot be exactly reconstructed, but from the type of masonry it can be concluded that it was built in the Byzantine period, also in the sixth century. The building, like the city, was later taken over by the Seljuks , who converted the castle into a Byzantine-Seljuk mixed system.
Building
The citadel is surrounded by a circular wall closed at the top with a crenellated wreath . The wall that can be walked all around is reinforced by 15 towers and has a gate each in the south and north. Inside there are several cisterns , a chapel and a mosque from the Seljuk period. The largest diameter of the system is around 160 m in north-south direction.
literature
- Marianne Mehling (Hrsg.): Knaur's cultural guide in color Turkey . Droemer-Knaur, 1987, ISBN 3-426-26293-2
- Franz Taeschner : Aya Solūk In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. 1, Brill, Leiden, pp. 777-778.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier : Ḫattusa's relations to Western Asia Minor and Greece In: Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft . Internationales Colloquium, Gernot Wilhelm : Ḫattuša-Boğazköy Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009 p. 302 ISBN 9783447058551