Sokullu Mehmet Paşa Han

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141 m · Payas Castle is a historic site located in the Payas district of Hatay province. It is believed to have been initially built by the Genoese during the Crusades and was used by the Knights Templar to ensure the safety of pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem. During the Ottoman period, it was rebuilt between 1567 and 1571 under the patronage of Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha. The castle has a roughly pentagonal plan with a single circuit wall featuring seven towers and is surrounded by a deep dry moat. The Payas Şehi̇r train stop is 633 meters away.

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11.9 km · Kinet Höyük is a mound located 30 km north of İskenderun, northwest of Dörtyol district, 500 meters inland from the coast of İskenderun Bay. The mound, 26 meters high from the ground, spreads over an area of 33 decares. The settlement was inhabited from the Late Neolithic Age to the Hellenistic Period, between 5,000-50 BC. It is considered the largest ancient settlement in Cilicia. It had two harbors, one in the bay to its east and one in the estuary of Deliçay (Pinarus) Stream to its south. The İssos Plain, where the mound is located, is the easternmost edge of Ancient Cilicia. It is stated that the ancient name of the settlement was İssos. It is the mound where the first Neolithic settlement was seen within the borders of today's Hatay province, Dörtyol district.

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25.4 km · Epiphania or Epiphaneia was a city in Cilicia Secunda, in Anatolia. The city was originally called Oeniandos or Oiniandos, and was located in the area of the northern tip of the Gulf of Iskenderun, on the route from Missis to Antioch. In the 2nd century BC the city was renamed Epiphania, in honour of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King of Syria from 175 BC to 164 BC.

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33.4 km · Toprakkale is a town in Osmaniye Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Toprakkale District. Its population is 11,411 (2022). It is located at 10 km to the west of Osmaniye. Its name comes from an Abbasid castle near the city.

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34.1 km · Kurtkulağı Kervansarayı is a historical caravanserai in Adana Province, Turkey

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