Ayas Sea Castle Ayas Castle at Yumurtalik; Aegae; Laiazzo; Lajazzo; La Giazza; Laias Unattributed Castles Fortresses Coastal fortifications Harbors Ports An important harbour-city, Aegea was most populated during the 1st century B.C. This port city, presently named Ayas, was also known as "the Golden port of Armenia" and "the port of many ships" was one of the biggest cities and a bustling center of international trade and commerce of Cilician Armenia. In the year 1271, the famous traveler Marco Polo, set sailed from Ayas home -- to Venice -- in an Armenian transport ship. It was the major harbour of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and under the Eastern Roman Empire. Later, it was ruled by the Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Ramazanoğlu and after the 16th century, by the Ottoman Empire. Images Digital Tiff; Jpeg2000 A-4081 Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland; IDC, 1980) Armenian Yumurtalık, Adana Province, Akdeniz kıyısı Region, Turkey 12th-13th century Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council
Ayas Sea Castle
Ayas Castle at Yumurtalik; Aegae; Laiazzo; Lajazzo; La Giazza; Laias
Unattributed
Castles
Fortresses
Coastal fortifications
Harbors
Ports
An important harbour-city, Aegea was most populated during the 1st century B.C. This port city, presently named Ayas, was also known as "the Golden port of Armenia" and "the port of many ships" was one of the biggest cities and a bustling center of international trade and commerce of Cilician Armenia. In the year 1271, the famous traveler Marco Polo, set sailed from Ayas home -- to Venice -- in an Armenian transport ship. It was the major harbour of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and under the Eastern Roman Empire. Later, it was ruled by the Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Ramazanoğlu and after the 16th century, by the Ottoman Empire.
Images
Digital
Tiff; Jpeg2000
A-4081
Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland; IDC, 1980)
Armenian
Yumurtalık, Adana Province, Akdeniz kıyısı Region, Turkey
12th-13th century
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council