MAMURE KALESİ KOYU ANCHORAGE

Anamur - Mersin - Turkey

Anamur Lighthouse
GPS : 36°01'03.0"N 32°48'09.8"E / 36.017506, 32.802732
Focal Plane : 68 m ( 223 ft ), Tower Height : 10 m ( 33 ft )
Character : W. Fl. (2) 5.0 Second (two white flashes every 5 second), Flashing Character : 0.3 + 1.0 + 0.3 + 3.4
Visibility Range : 15 nautical miles

GPS : 36°04'53.6"N 32°53'46.8"E / 36.081569, 32.896323



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Mamure Castle (Turkish: Mamure kalesi) is a medieval castle in the Anamur District of Mersin Province, Turkey. The castle is on the Mediterranean coast on the D400 highway, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Anamur and 216 kilometres (134 mi) west of Mersin.

Castle Anamur (Mamure Kalesi) - is one of the most beautiful and best preserved castles in Turkey. It was built in the third century by the Romans. It was used by the Crusaders and the Seljuk and Ottoman. It was rebuilt in the fourteenth century by Ibrahim Bey Karamanoğlu I. It has 36 towers and two huge squares that contain a mosque and the remains of the stables and armory.

The castle was built by the rulers of the Kingdom of Cilicia on the foundations of a fourth-century Roman castle. Designed to protect against pirates, it was repaired during the Byzantine era and during the Crusades. When Alaattin Keykubat I of Seljuk Turks captured the ruins of the castle in 1221, he built a larger castle using elements of the earlier fortifications. Later, it was controlled by the Karamanid dynasty (who ruled a Turkish state in Anatolia).

Although the exact date is uncertain, according to an inscription by İbrahim II of Karaman in 1450, the castle was captured during Mahmut's reign (1300-1311). The castle was renamed as Mamure (prosperous) after repairs by Mahmut. In 1469, the castle was annexed by the Ottoman Empire. It was subsequently repaired in the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries and a part of the castle was used as a caravansarai.

The 23,500-square-metre (253,000 sq ft) castle is surrounded by moat. Its 39 towers and bastions are connected by wide ramparts. The castle has three main courtyards; to the west, the east and the south. The western courtyard contains a small complex of a single minaret mosque and a ruined Turkish bath. The southern courtyard has the remains of a lighthouse.

Caretta Caretta
It is possible to watch "caretta caretta" turtles, in danger of extinction, while they are laying eggs on the beach or when the baby turtles are hatching and going to the sea.

CITY FACILITIES
Health : State Hospital, Health Center, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacies, Dentists
Accommodation : Hotels, Motels, Pensions, Rental Houses
Shopping : Supermarkets, Markets, Shops, Stores, Fish Market
Communication : Post Office, Phone, Internet
Hair dresser
Laundry
Beach : Sandy long beaches
Dining : Fish Restaurants, Cafes, Buffets, Restaurants, Bakeries, Tea Gardens
Repairing & Maintenance Workshops : Anamur, Bozyazı
Technical Equipment Shops : Anamur, Bozyazı
Special Shopping : Bananas, Peanuts, Strawberries

FISH RESTAURANTS
They are clean and have pleasant services. Fishes available due to seasons.

FISH AND SEA PRODUCT SPECIES LIST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

TRANSPORT
Minibus : Mamure Kalesi - Anamur
Bus : Anamur - Gazipaşa, Bozyazı, Mersin
Airport : Adana Şakirpaşa International Airport, Konya International Airport, Dalaman International Airport, Antalya International Airport, Gazipaşa International Airport

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ANAMUR PIER

Anamur - Mersin - Turkey

Anamur Lighthouse
GPS : 36°01'03.0"N 32°48'09.8"E / 36.017506, 32.802732
Focal Plane : 68 m ( 223 ft ), Tower Height : 10 m ( 33 ft )
Character : W. Fl. (2) 5.0 Second (two white flashes every 5 second), Flashing Character : 0.3 + 1.0 + 0.3 + 3.4
Visibility Range : 15 nautical miles

GPS : 36°04'05.5"N 32°52'05.3"E / 36.068188, 32.868148

VHF Channels : 16
Call Sign : " anamur iskele "

Pier Lighthouse
GPS : 36°04'05.8"N 32°52'04.8"E / 36.068263, 32.867988



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Anamur is a town and district of the province of Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey, between Antalya and the city of Mersin. Anamur is Turkey's southernmost point, a coastal resort famous for its bananas and peanuts.

Although there are places of historical interest, long beaches and a clean sea there is no large scale tourism on this part of the coast as the coast road in both directions is winding and really slow to drive. But there are major road works now into the direction of Mersin and Antalya.

Gazipasa Airport (near Alanya) has opened mid-2011. Direct charter flights from Amsterdam (Netherlands) take place twice a week. In 2012 also German airliners will fly to this airport. Other airports are in Antalya or in Adana. Although some people from central Anatolia as well as foreigners from Europe (Germans/Austrians/Dutch) have holiday homes here, Anamur itself is a quiet, isolated town with no night life, and in winter is very quiet indeed.

Anamur Iskele is the beach resort of this area. A lot of holiday flats and villa's are situated near the beach or more inland. Plenty of small and some bigger hotels offer good quality as well as the restaurants near the small boulevard. The beaches are important nesting grounds for the sea turtle caretta caretta and the rocky areas of coastline are inhabited by the Mediterranean Monk Seal.

There are great undeveloped sandy beaches almost totally deserted around the ruins of Anemurion, with a seawater temperature close to the levels of a hot tub. However, take care of not disturbing turtle eggs of an endangered species (Caretta caretta), which lay eggs to many beaches in the area. Especially discouraged (and sometimes, outright banned) are using beach umbrellas or other objects with sharp ends, building firepits, and leaving behind even the smallest piece of trash. Sometimes local military police (jandarma) shuts the entrance to the beaches in the evening and through the night, out of environmental concerns.

The local economy depends on agriculture, especially bananas and strawberries. The weather here is very, very hot and this is the only part of Turkey that can sustain bananas, there are banana plants everywhere and now other tropical fruits such as papaya, pineapples and avocados are being planted here too. Anamur produces 40% of Turkey's strawberries. A traditional local speciality is taro (known locally as gölevez).

TOWN FACILITIES
Repairing & Maintenance Workshops : Anamur, Bozyazı
Technical Equipment Shops : Anamur, Bozyazı
Accommodation : Pensions, Hotels, Motels, Rental Houses, Picnic Areas
Beach : İskele, Anemurion
Dining : Restaurants, Buffets, Cafes, Bakeries
Public Market : Thursday
Health : Health Center - Hospital, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacies, Dentists
Hair dresser
Laundry
Bank
Shopping : Supermarket, Stores, Shops, Markets
Special Shopping : Banana, Strawberry, Papaya, Pineapples, Avocados

SITES TO VISIT

Mamure, the old Crusader castle.
Mamure Castle, the medieval castle, well-preserved, about 7 km (4 mi) 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 Mahmud Bey of Karaman 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.

Anemurium Ruins
GPS : 36°01'27.6"N 32°48'10.0"E / 36.024342, 32.802787

Anemurium, in modern Turkish Anamur, in Ancient Anemourion, was a major city of the Roman province of Rough Cilicia, the Byzantine Cibyrrhaeot Theme. Its bishopric is now included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. It was situated near a high bluff knob (Cape Anamur) that marks the southernmost point of Asia Minor, opposite Cyprus.

The ruins of its theatres, tombs and walls are still visible and were first mentioned by Francis Beaufort, an English naval captain who explored the south coast of Turkey in 1811-12 and who published his discoveries in Karamania. Excavations directed by Professor Elizabeth Alfoldi, University of Toronto (1965-1970), and subsequently James Russell, University of British Columbia (1971-2000), along with his colleague Hector Williams and his wife Caroline, have revealed extensive traces of the city's buildings, tombs and history from the 1st century after Christ until the city's abandonment around 650 when Arab attacks made the coast unsafe.

Teams have uncovered a large theater, a small covered theater or odeon, several public baths decorated with mosaic floors (some converted to industrial use in late antiquity), four early Christian churches (also with mosaic floors and donors' inscriptions), a possible civil basilica (law court), sections of the city walls and aqueducts, and a number of minor structures. Work in the city's extensive necropolis of several hundred tombs built above ground has revealed and conserved wall paintings (including the four seasons) and more mosaic floors. Anemurium had its own mint which produced coins from the late 1st century CE to its capture by the Sassanians in 260, an event that sent the city into decline for many decades. In medieval times the Kingdom of Little Armenia established a castle, known as Mamure Castle, near the city.

FISH AND SEA PRODUCT SPECIES LIST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

TRANSPORT
Minibus : Town Center - İskele
Bus : Anamur - Alanya, Silifke, Antalya, Mersin
Airport : Adana Şakirpaşa International Airport, Konya International Airport, Dalaman International Airport, Antalya International Airport, Gazipaşa International Airport

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WEB SITE : Anamur Municipality

MORE INFO & CONTACT
E-Mail : halklailiskiler@anamur.bel.tr
Phone : +90 324 814 1115
Fax : +90 324 814 2020

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