ARSUZ HOTEL

The hotel is located in the old Arsuz directly on the beach, a beautiful private beach front section of a small garden with palm trees.

An ideal combination for worry-free holiday swim in the beach sand flat with simultaneous change in small, but very Arsuz original location. A few years ago, as a tip for you to discover! The hotel has a terrace restaurant and bar rooms are equipped with comfortable and have their own shower, toilet, telephone and partly balcony. A total of 70 rooms.

The transfer of Adana takes about 2.5 hours.

For the return trip, we offer a night in Adana, where his flight back to Germany in early morning starts. Getting also the possibility of a brief overview of this small eastern Metropoloe win. Our prices are already a transfer of Adana and night. For technical reasons, transfer hotel at the airport in Adana zaheln him separately and in our price is not included. They organized the hotel in Adana taxes trip.

ANCIENT ANTAKYA(HATAY,ANTIOCH)

The city was under the name Antigoneia on the Orontes 307 BC by I. Antigonus. After its defeat by Seleucus I was 300 BC to the present office and relocated in Antioch renamed. The city was named in honor of Seleucus' father Antiochus. The city became one of the capitals of Seleukidenreiches and became one of the most important cities of the ancient world. Once there were sacred games out, with the Olympic competition. Daphne Antiochias suburban city was a major Apollo sanctuary and a famous Hains, the many (pagan) and attracted pilgrims at least to the 6th Century. Antioch was at the crossroads of various trade routes, making the development of the town very accelerated. After 64 BC seleukidische the fuselage State eliminated by the Romans, was Antioch capital of the Roman province of Syria.

In Roman times counted Antioch probably up to 500,000 residents and was one of the five main cities of the Roman Empire. The city, but also in the history of Christianity an important position, see some Antiochenische school. From Antioch came Nicholas, one of the first seven deacons. According to tradition gathered in St. Peter Cave, the first Christian church to Paul, Barnabas, Peter and then the first bishops of the city. The Apostle Paul preached for the first time in a synagogue, here were the disciples of Christ first Christians (christianoi, see Acts). With the establishment of the Christian church was Antioch, apparently already in the middle of the 4th Christianisiert century was largely right (see the reaction to the visit Apostatas Julian), seat of the original three, five later altkirchlichen Patriarchate, together with Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria and Jerusalem. As Rome referred it to the Apostle Peter as the founder Bishop, after church tradition only later went to Rome and suffered martyrdom. Today, several churches claiming the legitimate successor of the Patriarchate, see Patriarchate of Antioch.

In the late Antioch remained, despite some severe earthquake and several looting by the Sassanid a very important city in the (Eastern) Roman Empire. So were the rhetorical schools in the city in the 4th Schools next century Athens, Alexandria and Constantinople to the leading of the empire; several important teachers are known by name, such as Ulpianus of Antioch, Eusebius Arabs, Aedesius Rhetor and his disciple Zenobius Rhetor and especially the famous Libanios. Even the (next Procopius) most important late historian Ammianus Marcellinus, a contemporary of Libanios, probably came from Antioch. The decline of the metropolis began in the 6th Age: After the devastating earthquake of 526, which, according to John Malalas up to 250,000 people fell victim to, and the collection and destruction of the city by the Sassanid king Khosrau I. (540), a large part of the inhabitants and deported in a separate Ktesiphon City ( "Chosrauantiochia") ansiedelte, the city was under Emperor Justinian I. rebuilt (new name Theoupolis, "City of God"), but now they comprised only a part of the former area. At the end of the late Antioch was 638-41 conquered by the Arabs (see Islamic expansion), which also began in the Middle Ages.

HISTORY OF ANTAKYA-HATAY

The province of Hatay belonged to the beginning of the 20th Century to the Ottoman Empire and was 1918 after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War by the French occupied. Under the Treaty of Sanremo 1920, by France within the mandate of Syria managed. They remained separated from the French Syria and received on 4 March 1923 autonomy.

France originally wanted no united Syrian state, but planned a breakdown in four states with their own government, with religious and denominational factors play a role. In Alexandrette should Armenian refugees from all over Cilicia together with the then Turkish majority Arabs and a home.

With the expiration of the French mandate over Syria closer to Turkey from 1936 their demands for a connection in the area.

France was the Turkish demands for a separation from the Syrian mandate, contrary to Turkey from a war on the side entrance Hitler's Germany hold.

On 2 September 1938 was in the Iskenderun independent, but short-lived government Hatay exclaimed. The association with the Turkish Republic was approved by the Parliament of the Republic of Hatay on 29 Decided in June 1939. France, the former mandate power from Syria and Lebanon, had already on 23 June 1939 the port in a contract agreed with Turkey. Since Hatay is a province of the Turkish Republic. Hatay is still a bone of contention between Syria and Turkey remained

INFORMATION ABOUT HATAY

Hatay is a Turkish province. Its capital is Antakya, the former Antioch. The province had 1,253,726 inhabitants in 2000 and an area of 5,678 sq. km. The majority are Sunni Turkish. The minorities include alevitische Arabs and Armenians (in the village of Vakifli) and (Aramaer).

The district of Hatay, until the late 1930s in the West Sandjak Alexandrette, geographically now forms the southernmost part of Turkey, situated in the northwestern border with Syria. The main cities are Iskenderun and Antakya.

Geography 46% of the area are mountains, valleys 33% and 20% plateau. The main mountain ranges are the only mountains in the north-south direction. They are also under the names Gavur or Amanos Mountains. The highest peak is the Migirtepe(Bozdag) with 2240 m. Other high mountains are the Ziyaret Mountain and the Keldag(Kel Mountain) with 1739 m . The most important river is the Asi (Orontes former). He comes from Lebanon and flows through Syria in southern Hatay near the town of Samandag into the Mediterranean.

Major lakes are Gölbasi and Yenisehir Gölü. The Amik lake dried up in the 1970s and is now seen as agricultural land.

The Amik Valley is the most important valley in Hatay. Other valleys are Dörtyol, Arsuz, Payas,Iskenderun and Erzin.

ANTAKYA MOSAIC MUSEUM

This interesting museum has a mosaic of the most important collections in the world. The mosaics from the 2nd 3.Jhd.n.Chr up. represent mythological scenes with human and animal figures dar. This is the Roman floor jewellery distinguished public buildings and homes from Antakya and the nearby Harbiye (Daphne). The museum also has a collection Hittite finds from the vicinity of Antakya.

HZ. MUSA TREE

Hz.Musa tree is in the center of the Hidirbey Village.You can come there by the Samandag way.It is giant pine tree.It is 17 metres high.If the story is true,H.z Musa tree is the biggest tree in the world.

POPULATION

The population of Antakya-Hatay is 1.386.224 for 2007 census. 681.655 people of this population lives in the city center,the others lives in the districts and villages.The increase of population is %1.22 .And in the Hatay-Antakya 77 nations of people leaves.