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ADALIA (med. Antaliyah; the crusaders' Satalia) , the See also: ancient See also: Attalia (q.v.), the largest seaport on the See also: south See also: coast of See also: Asia Minor, though in point of See also: trade it is now second to See also: Mersina
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The unsuitability of the harbour for See also: modern steamers, the See also: bad anchorage outside and the extension of See also: railways- from See also: Smyrna have greatly lessened its former importance as an emporium for west central Anatolia
.
It is not connected by a chaussee with any point outside its immediate province, but it has considerable importance as the administrative capital of a See also: rich and isolated sanjak
.
Adalia played a considerable See also: part in the See also: medieval See also: history of the See also: Levant
.
Kilij Arslan had a palace there
.
The army of See also: Louis VII. sailed thence for
See also: Syria in 1148, and the See also: fleet of See also: Richard of See also: England rallied there before the See also: conquest of See also: Cyprus
.
Conquered by the See also: Seljuks of See also: Konia, and made the capital of the province of Tekke, it passed after their fall through many hands, including those of the Venetians and Genoese, before its final occupation by the See also: Ottoman See also: Turks under See also: Murad II
.
(1432)
.
In the 18th century, in See also: common with most of Anatolia, its actual See also: lord was a Dere Bey
.
The See also: family of Tekke Oglu, domiciled near See also: Perga, though reduced to submission in 1812 by Mahmud II., continued to be a See also: rival power to the Ottoman governor till within the See also: present generation, surviving by many years the fall of the other See also: great Beys of Anatolia
.
The records of the Levant (See also: Turkey) See also: Company, which maintained an important agency here till 1825, contain curious information as to the See also: local Dere Beys
.
The present population of Adalia, which includes many Christians and Jews, still living, as in the See also: middle ages, in See also: separate quarters, the former round the walled See also: mina or See also: port, is about 25,000
.
The port is served by See also: coasting steamers of the local companies only
.
Adalia is an extremely picturesque, but See also: ill-built and backward place
.
The chief thing to see is the city See also: wall, outside which runs a See also: good and clean See also: promenade
.
The See also: government offices and the houses of the better class are all outside the walls
.
See C
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Lanckoronski, Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, i
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