Antalya, located on the Mediterranean coast in southwest Turkey, is located on a coastal plain surrounded by mountains, on the coastal cliffs of the Falez type. The coastal plain, which narrows gradually to the west, has very fertile soils in the east. Development and investment planning that began in the 1960s transformed the city into an international station in 1970. Tourism, as the locomotive sector of Antalya, has transformed this beautiful city into the tourism capital of the country.

​Antalya’s protohistoric history dates back to ancient times. However, it is not known when people started to live in the settled order in this region. Pergamon King Attalos II BC. It takes place in the records that he took around 150 cities and named Attalia after his own name. Attalos II chooses this port as a naval base for his ships.

In the excavations carried out since 2008 in the Doğu Garajı district in the present center of Antalya, BC. Graves dating back to the 3rd century BC have been found. The burial structures found in this area, which is the necropolis (cemetery area) of the city within the castle walls, make us think that the city was founded earlier than expected. Antalya BC In 133 it became part of the Roman Republic. King of Pergamon III. During the Attalos period, the city grew and prospered.

​2. After the century, Christianity began to spread in the region. Antalya was visited by Paulus of Tarsus, as stated in Christian sources. Antalya lived as a major city of the Byzantine Empire until the arrival of the Turks.

The city and its surroundings came under Seljuk rule in the 13th century. Antalya was the capital of the Teke Turkish Principality (1321-1423) until its conquest by the Ottomans. The Arab traveler Ibn Battuta, who came to the city between 1335 and 1340, records the following in his notes:

“From Alanya I went to Antaliya, one of the most beautiful cities. This is one of the most attractive cities to see, covering a large area, and despite being very large, extremely underpopulated and well landscaped. Every part of its inhabitants are separate. Christian merchants living in a quarter of the town known as Mina [harbour] are locked in their walled quarters, the doors of which are closed from the outside, at night and during Friday mass, while its former inhabitants, the Greeks, live alone in another quarter. Mamluks live in a royal palace. Each of these neighborhoods is also surrounded by fortifications. Other Muslims live in the main city. In the whole city and in all the neighborhoods mentioned, there is another great wall. The city contains orchards and is especially palatable to one type of apricot. Citrus fruits are thin-skinned fruits.The core they grow has a sweet almond.This fruit is It is crushed and exported to Egypt, where it is considered a great luxury.”

17. In the second half of the century, Evliya Çelebi talks about a city consisting of narrow streets with 3,000 houses. Evliya Çelebi states that there are Turkish quarters and four Greek quarters in the city within the walls. According to the traveler’s account, the city had expanded beyond the walls and 200 boats were located in the harbour.

​19. In the 19th century, like most Anatolian cities, the Ottomans had a regional governor (Derebey) here. II. Despite being subjugated by Mahmud in 1812, Teke Son’s family, who lived near Perge, rejected the Ottoman yoke for many years after the collapse of the other great beys of Anatolia, and remained the rival power of the Ottoman governor until the proclamation of the Republic. The archives of the Levant (Europeans living in Turkey) Society, which had an agency in Antalya until 1825, documented local overlords.

The population of Antalya increased with the arrival of the Turks in the Caucasus and the Balkans in 1911, the population of approximately 25,000 people, including many Christians and Jews, continued to live in separate neighborhoods around the harbor or Mura, while new neighborhoods began to be established outside the walls. .

In the last century, the city has expanded at an incredible rate, especially in the last 30 years, the area of ​​​​residential areas has grown four times. The main attraction for visitors is Karaoğlanoğlu Park, which lays the entire coastline underfoot with its location overlooking the sea with its clock tower and its surroundings, apart from a stroll within the city walls, some of which have survived to the present day.

Government offices and upper-class houses have been outside the walls since the 19th century.

The city was briefly occupied by the Italians after the end of the First World War. Today, it is possible to come across a few traces of Italians in the Suriçi neighborhoods.