Anamur: Anemurium and Marmure Kalesi

Anamur is a district of the province of Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey, between Alanya and the city of Mersin. Anamur has mutated from the Greek Anemurium meaning windy point.
Anemurium, the remains of the ancient city, built between c. 100 BC and AD 600 6 km southwest of Anamur, on the coast. The stone walls of the city are still partly intact and there are many mosaics. The small theatre or odeion is still largely intact across from the more poorly preserved large theatre and there are several bath buildings. Enough left of the city's two-storey Roman bathhouse to give a good impression of what it was in its heyday, with changing rooms, a hot section, a warm section, and a hall with a pool. On the entrance gate a sign written Latin says "Welcome to the baths, have a good bath." The city had an elaborate water supply system, as illustrated by the remains of the aqueducts. There is also an acropolis containing the ruins of a palace, which had its own private water supply. Around the city walls there are many Roman built tombs, which even have small entrance halls for visitors.
Mamure, the well-preserved old Crusader castle, is about 7 km south east of Anamur. Originally built by the Romans in the third or fourth century AD, it was enlarged by the Byzantine Empire and the Crusaders. After the Seljuk Turkish Sultan `Ala' ad-Din Kay-Qubad captured the castle in 1221, he had it rebuilt in its present form. It consists of three courtyards with 39 towers, surrounded by a moat. In one courtyard there is an ancient mosque with a minaret -- built by Mehmet Bey of Karamanoğulları in 1300-1308 -- which is still open for prayer. There are the ruins of a bathhouse on the opposite side. The castle is in two sections with two lines of ramparts between them, a walkway along the ramparts links the two sides.

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• Mersin
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