Mount Honaz

Honaz Dagi

The Honaz Dagi is a 2,528 m high mountain in the province of Denizli in southwest Turkey, 17 km southeast of the provincial capital of Denizli and 3 km southwest of the eponymous town Honaz. He is also the highest peak in the Aegean region. From Honaz Dagi the mountains Gölgeli Dağları moves on to the south and reaches the Bozdağ 2,419 m and 2,241 m altitude in Kızılhisar Dagi. The mountain range stretches from Akdağ Honaz Dagi further west and reaches Babadağ and Karcı Dagi 2,308 m altitude

The mountain is covered with forests, which are particularly tight, especially on the northern side of the mountain. A project of the former mayor of Honaz, Recep Yazıcıoğlu, establishing a ski area has remained unrealized.

On the Honaz Dagi and the process water of Honaz is stored.

History

The Honaz Dagi was during the Second Crusade scene of an attack on the French crusading army, in consequence of which the French king Louis VII and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine befanden.Die main sources for the events on the mountain Honaz Dagi are reports of Odo of Deuil and William of Tyre. The detailed report is from the royal chaplain Odo of Deuil, the Ludwig accompanied during the crusade. He cites as commander of the armed vanguard of the Aquitanian nobleman Godfrey of Rancon and the Count of Maurienne, an uncle of Louis. Against the order of the king the vanguard began the Honaz Dagi to cross, when she had reached the foot of the mountain around noon and had until then shown kieine enemy forces. Here, the vanguard away further and further from Hauptpulk the Crusaders, which was followed by an armed rearguard under Louis command. During the attack of the Turkish army on the Hauptpulk only Louis could with his rearguard this rush to help and it was defeated. William of Tyre 's account of the events on the mountain Honaz Dagi is much less detailed, as he calls responsible only Godfrey of Rancon. Eleanor of Aquitaine, the later chroniclers was accused of a substantial complicity in the destruction of the French crusade army, is mentioned in neither of the two chronicles. Later resulting reports on the crusade ground in defiance of the main sources that it was the traveling with the vanguard Eleonore, the Gottfried led by Rancon have to act differently than ordered.