Abstract :
Ayas( Yumurtalık), first founded by a Macedonian colony as a harbor city and of which the former history is unknown, has been a popular place of the emperors during the Roman Empire and has been used as a navy base. Ayas Castle, which has been dominated by Romans, Persians,Byzantians, First Islamic Conquerors, Crusades, Armenians, Memluks and Ramazanoğulları from its foundation up to the Ottoman Times, has been repeatedly attacked by Memluks and destroyed between 1266 and 1347. The city has been taken by Memluks in 1347 and reconstructed repeatedly. For the reasons listed, on many parts of the wall the materials used vary in size and shape. The third part which differs from the others has been added most probably after Memluks took over Ayas. But the part between second and third part on which we suppose there was the castle door, has been destroyed in the present century. The diversity of the materials used on the castle where exist the traces of repairs play an important role in indicating the data on the nations dominated here.
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Ayas , Castle , City walls , recruited reused material , architecture
