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Fig. 66: The Conquest of Antalya by Sultan Izzettin Keykavus I.
Painting Z. S. Polat Watercolor Work (Sevgili-Polat – Zaimoğlu 2019 Pic.5)
The Seljuk army, which set out for Attaleia under the leadership
of the Sultan, crossed the lofty Taurus Mountains and descended
to the Antalya plain, where they rested near the Düden Waterfall.
With the new day, when they come close to the Attaleia city walls,
the soldiers started to shoot arrows at the bastions of the castle
on the order of the sultan. However, in this case, the sultan, ob-
serving that the arrows were useless, tells his soldiers to attack
with swords and shields;
“This castle cannot be taken with an arrow or mace, if there is a
self-confident person, he should climb the bastions and use his
sword and shield”.
From that moment on, all the soldiers fight with their heart and the
Seljuk flag starts to flutter on the castle bastions close to sunset.
Just as the flag of Sultan Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev started to fly
from the battlements, Hadrianus descended from the arch of hon-
or of his city and from there to the port and delivered the ships that
the Franks had taken from the merchants back to the merchants
(Çimrin 2002 Çimrin, 2012; Demir 2018; Sevgili-Polat and Zaimoğlu 2019).

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