Süleyman's Tower
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Süleyman's Tower
OR:
Süleyman's Tower on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Süleyman's Tower (also called "armed Ayas tower") is a historical building in
Yumurtalık Yumurtalık (), formerly called Aegeae, Ayas, Lyeys or Laiazzo, is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 447 km2, and its population is 17,654 (2022). It is a Mediterranean port and resort town at a distance of ab ...
district of
Adana Province Adana Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78.25% of the r ...
,
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. The tower is situated at the
Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...
side to the west of Yumurtalık. At the distance to Yumurtalık district center is and to
Adana Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 81 ...
is . The building was an
observation tower An observation tower is a tower used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision to conduct long distance observations. Observation towers are usually at least tall and are made from stone, iron, and woo ...
built in 1536 during the reign of Ottoman sultan
Süleyman I Suleiman I (; , ; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver () in his own realm, was the Ottoman sultan between 1520 and his death in 1566. Under his admini ...
(called "the Magnificent"). Yumurtalık governor's page
/ref> The pentagonal two storey building was built to observe the sea to protect the busy port of Ayas, Adana from a possible pirate assault.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suleyman's Tower Buildings and structures in Adana Province Buildings and structures of the Ottoman Empire Yumurtalık