Anamur name; Anemurium has taken the ancient city. If we explain the Latin word which Anemurium, Amen: the nose, I Ourida: wind and summer heat means that even in this city where the wind never cut "Windy Nose" he said.
Windy nose. Located Anamur nose in the atlas. Anamur town center7 km. Located in the southwest of the tip of southern Turkey. 36 der 03 minutes north latitude near the town. 1. Anamur nose also occurring calcareous rocks, eruptive rocks is a protrusion extending into the Mediterranean. Anemurium Kargage it established the mountains to the junction with the southern and eastern slopes of the ancient city.
The road continues to the west towards the road from Anamur Antalya from 7.kilometre asphalt road you go from the mountains to the sea at the bottom of the ancient city that welcomes you with a magnificent structure.
past history dating back to ancient times Luwians in this city, Arzava are, Klikyalı are Kua are, Selefkoz are Kızuvatnalı, Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines and Arabs continued their long domination. Longest sovereignty belongs to the Turks.
Anemurium BC Assyrians in the 8th century entered its sovereignty. Entered Anatolia in the 6th century Persia also provide control in this region.
Anamur, in 333 BC, during the time that Alexander the Great ruled on the east do is connected to the Macedonian Kingdom. During this period, Anemurium named after the city around the castle walls located, has survived several dominance by making repairs. The area around the city of two series of nested field fortress was surrounded by walls .. He Soloi extending the period of Aspendos coastal path was through the Anemurium. BC Alexander the Great 323 Selefkoz the state established after the death of the last hand before the first century AD, the settlement came under Roman rule. The Anemurium with some coastal cities in the eastern Mediterranean coast, the Roman Emperor Caligula gave Commagene kingdom.
After this period in the history of the city, the city s name "Anemurium" Kizuvatna kingdom was under the influence of the Hittite period before the çıkmaktadır.anamuri I emerged as. Kizuvatna Hittite kingdom remained linked to from time to time.
According to some researchers and the observations of the Hittite king Tuthaliya 4 BC In the 12th century the city is Mattuvat people who take refuge in him was a gift. if it was Assyrian domination of the city before Tuthalia. The city owns the Mattuvat has set up a principality dating back to the Opium taking advantage of the weakening of the Hittites and Anemurium has been the capital of the principality. After a while, the city passed into the hands of the Phoenicians, Isaira, Selefkoz, Romans and Byzantines continued the domination. The oldest of having the city before bilinmektedir.isa birth to today as the Phoenicians in the 1st century town located in the dominion of Rome, which is an intermediate station from the close proximity to the island of Cyprus and Anemurium which play an important role in the development of trade, through the same period in the black, in Taurus one of the most important Roman city continued its connection with the Germanikopolis. an important trade in the region has been exported natural resources has been a port city. Then Anamur entering the Byzantine rule, it has been rebuilt over the years by the Byzantines.
All the coast of Cilicia by the Roman Emperor, King Antiochus Calicul to KOMEG (AD 38-72, some sources AD 37-41) are given. King Antiochus was held in the city administration. (This extends to the borders of the principality of Konya from Ayas) .Milat 1st century after the first walls of the fort around the city for protection has emerged during this period. coins of the period from the King of Titus Valerius were introduced as a result of excavations in the ancient city.
Anamur by dividing into two empires of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire fell into the region. (395 AD)
Anemurium defying time of the ancient city, still have Kargage Anamur nose is the most extreme in the south of Anatolia with the standing remains of the mountains of the east-facing slopes, located in a residential merkeziymişçe living though. During the excavations had been achieved against a number of coins and stuff, what this city could not reach a clear information about when it was established. Anemurium city name or city to the late harbor list of speed there in the 4th century BC, it is possible to say that.
Was seized by Anemurium Anno Domini 260 Sassanids, 4th and 5th centuries as a result of attacks by pirates from the Taurus Mountains and Mediterranean cities often It has been damaged.
Arab invasions of the city, which was abandoned in the year 650 after that date. The Islamic Army for the first time the city caliph. Omar has realized the time had come and the conquest of the city. Byzantine period towards the Arab invasion of Anatolia began the Abbasid Caliph Mansur. (8th century AD) after this date as many regions in the south of Anatolia Anamur Arab states and has changed hands several times between the Byzantine Empire.
Turkey has arrived in the city in the 11th and 12th centuries. In the 12th century the city was under Turkish rule.
Anamur first Turkish tribes from Central Asia through Central Anatolia and later appeared in their research came out of Gulnar town of Anamur. The names of the bride roads and residential areas Taşeli the region.
Taşeli plateaus (Region) Mut, Silifke, Anamur and the entire Mediterranean coastline between Ermenek, watch a bird s eye view from above manner and extend across the Taurus. east of Taşeli Silifke, Mut northern, western Ermenek, surrounded by the southern tip of Anamur districts. It is located in the highlands of the rectangle Taşeli. For now live nomadic in these springs.
Nowadays tradition living in Anamur and Taşeli springs, traditions and customs of the Turkmen costumes, structure, behavior, respect, respect, hospitality with, nomads with no umursamayış of that crazy life of the city, they take people away to other lands.
These people are the real owners of the Taurus. And this region since the 1200s and settled in this land they have made abroad. The people here; TAŞELİ spruce, tar, thyme, smelling hyacinths in spring, snowy mountain slopes are a happy life while accompanied by white clouds.
Seljuk ruler Alaaddin Keykubat, Ertokuş Bey took the city on the Mediterranean coast with a mandate to connect selcuks Anamur Castle in 1228 was FETs. The receipt and made into a new prosperous coastline with castle remained under the domination of the Seljuks from 1228.
Seljuk Turks Anamur castle (Mamure) entered the region after the capture of Turkish sovereignty. people living in the coastal strip is linked to tax in return for living in Seljuk security. In the Seljuk period it lost power in the management of the city has entered Karamanoğulları. Anamur Turkish settlers of the grooves is of a clan of the Oguz. II. One of the biggest inner-city size Beyazit period until it was too long groove. Inner-city Yiva Large and Small Yiva Yiva is to be divided into two branches. During this period, members of the longitudinal grooves in the record that the present village is located about forty.
Anemurium long after the Seljuks Karamanoğulları one of the principalities in Anatolia remained in the hands of the principality. Karamanoğulları principality Kocaçay (Dragon) on tea, springs and Karamanoğlu built for the Alaköprü on the road connecting the town of Ermenek the Anamur and Anemurium also moving toward the coast in 1230, according to a rumor has seized the ancient city.
Anamur, the second half of the 15th century after Karamanoğulları principality passed to the administration of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1804 the Ottoman principality Anamur is managed by end of the year with the establishment of the province administration in the history of Mut, Glinka (Aydın) and were included in the starboard consisting Ermenek. Although this was the center of Konya is connected to starboard, starboard administrative center Ermenek (Elmanak), respectively. 1811 is attached to the starboard starboard Silifke taken from the center of Konya.
After passing into the hands of the Seljuks Karamanoğulları Anamur Ottoman rule in 1859, it has offices in the organization. From time to time if the accident has been the center of the town and district in 1869 precisely. Prior to 1869, while in the process of Konya starboard records, deeds and other administrative center is in Ermenek yapılmıştır.1869 year governorship, today Nasreddin (district town of the ruins) was in the village. But when they have these gentlemen of the administration center for the governorship interference in their work place that is now called barren. then the Greeks were living in the wasteland. But the Greeks, the desertion of a church demolished on the rest of them, the government built the building and is now established Anamur here. This building served as the government building for a long time, then the Anatolian High School, was given to the Mersin University Vocational School. The government building was moved to a modern building in the neighborhood Yesilyurt. attempts made to transport the near Mamure Castle s administrative center in ancient history remained inconclusive. Anamur population of elderly people who still remembers the old with the city s name from the district center opens subject "Barren (inefficient location-field)" indicate quoted saying.
Anamur the population centers located west Karaman and neighboring provinces of Mersin and Antalya for today, with a population of 83 864 with 49 948 villages, continues to develop as a modern seaside city.