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14-SEP-2006

To Adana 2006 09 1809.jpg

Turkey, Adana view map

I add some pictures that I made on a busride from Kahta to Adana.

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kerem kemaneci 29-Jan-2008 12:13
your welcome... i will suggest you to check this video out with english narration about adana city and province.May be, You will see more dteails to photograph...
also thank you very much for your glamorous photos of adana and turkey...

Good Luck!
Dick Osseman28-Jan-2008 20:55
Thanks for this information, I'll try to get there some time.
kerem 28-Jan-2008 19:45
This is Yýlan Kale(Snake Castle)...Seems you made this pic on the highway, between Ceyhan and Adana... This castle was built by Crusaders.Many empires and countries used the castle(Crusaders, Byzantium,Seldjukians, Ottoman Empire...etc ) because of the importance of it's strategical location. But there is a bigger castle norh to this castle, that is Anavarza Castle. Anavarza Castle was built by Assurians first in 9. century BC... Has also Roman ancient city down skirts of the castle anavarza.Çukurova(Adana and enviromental towns and areas ) has 7 castle, built like chain, starts from yumurtalik(Adana seaside town) to Tufan beyli (northest point of adana)... this means an old highway from mediterenian sea or from middle east to middle anatolia and Europe...
Tiran Rshtouni 29-Nov-2007 11:42
Nice picture. As mentioned the name of fortress is related to snakes but another name of fortress is Levon Kla which was built by Levon I king of Roubinian (1199-1219).
Guest 12-Mar-2007 02:11
This looks to be "Yilan Kalesi" or "Snake Castle". I believe it was named after Sheikh Meran was was supposed to be half man half snake. It is located near Incirlik Air Force Base, Adana. I was stationed there from 1990 - 1991. Whoever posted the comment below is correct, it was very difficult to climb up but it was well worth it once you made it.
Barb 19-Feb-2007 09:25
Yes, I've climbed up into this castle and have the name of it somewhere around here. I will have to look for it and let you know what I come up with. This was a great castle for exploring, a little harder to get into than some, you had to climb up a rather dangerous section that was very steep, but the view was well worth it. The story goes that the Crusader castles were all built in this area so that each one could be contacted by smoke or fire from the other one and they could each in turn communicate with each other. It appeared to be true when we were there. There was another great one called Anavarsa with a Roman city below the castle which sat high on a large hill behind. It was not far from this one as the crow flies.