Kanlıdivane

Kanytelleis (also Kanytellis, Kanytelis, Kanytella, later Neopolis, today Kanlidivane ) is an ancient city in Cilicia. It lies on the southern Turkish coast between Silifke and Erdemli, about eight kilometers east of Kızkalesi, the ancient Korykos in the province of Mersin.

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History

The founding date of the city is not known, an inscription found on the spot of Teucer from olba can but conclude that the city in the second century BC was one of the priests of the state some 30 km north-west olba - Diocaesarea. From other inscriptions can be read that the place belonged to Elaiussa Sebaste later. In the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II in the fifth century AD, it was expanded and renamed in Neopolis. In the 11th century the city was probably abandoned.

The French orientalist Victor Langlois has visited in the mid-19th century Kanytelleis and identified as the Byzantine Neopolis. Initial studies were carried out in the 1970s under the direction of Semavi Eyice. 2006 began Hatice Pamir of the Mustafa Kemal University in Antakya a Survey.

Relics

The relics of the city grouped around a collapse doline of 70 m diameter and 60 m depth, similar to the two Karsteinstürzen the nearby korykischen caves. At the sinkhole that is accessible via trails, two reliefs in the walls let in, on the south side an image of six members of the family Armaronxas, about which, however, nothing is further known, and on the north side of the portrait of a Roman warrior. As testimony from pre-Christian times is on the southern edge of the sinkhole, a former three stories high Hellenistic defensive and residential tower of polygonal masonry. A dedicatory inscription to Zeus Olbios points in the second century BC is located on the north side of the youngest of four basilicas. After the founders mentioned in an inscription it is called Papylos Church. Apart from the south wall and parts of the walls of the narthex once aisled basilica are still largely intact. The other churches are located west of the center. There are also a few remains of houses are seen as well as a cemetery from the Turkish period. Also west of the town there are several extensive necropolis. Also worth mentioning are a grave house, sarcophagi and equipped with reliefs rock tombs. In the surrounding area there are scattered remains of several aqueducts that Kanytelleis, Elaiussa - Sebaste and Korykos supplied with water.

Rock grave with relief

House grave