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Around Kusadasi |
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Kusadasi has a
rich and varied history. A small settlement
founded by lonian settlers and known as
Neapolis, is known to have existed at the
site even in ancient times, but it was
always over shadowed by its mighty neighbor
Ephesus.After the Hellenistic Period, the
Romans and the Byzantines dominated Kusadasi.
The town was an important commercial port
and a foreign colony under Venetian and
Genoese merchants in the 14th century and
was called ScalaNouva (the new port) and
medieval chronicles mention the presence of
foreign consulates and warehouses. The Turks
preferred to live mainly inland on the
foothills around Pilavtepe near the ancient
settlement known as Andizkule.
After a period of various Seljuk princes and
Crusader knights the ottoman Turks conquered
Kusadasi in 1413.
The town took its present from during the
early 17th century when Okuz Mehmet Pasha
was a grand vizier of Ottoman Empire. He
built the city walls, a mosque complex
consisting of a mosque, an Inn and a Turkish
bath. |
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