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Fig. 68: The Shipyard, Tower and Walls Built During the Alaeddin
Keykubad Period.

a very clever move that has been circulating for centuries.
Alaeddin Keykubad I, who spent the hot summer season in
Kayseri, organizes a campaign towards Kalonoros, which is led
by a feudal lord named Kyr Vart in the Armenian Kingdom of
Klikia. So much so that this time he orders Adalia (Antalya) to
support from the sea.
The people of Kalonoros could not withstand this siege,
which lasted about 2 months, and in 1221 they surrendered the
castle to the Seljuks. Thereupon, according to the agreement
made between the Sultan and KyrVart, Sultan Alaeddin would
take over the castleand marry KyrVart’s daughter, and he would
be given the ownership of Akşehir principality and several villag-
es in return for Alanya. So much so that the Sultan, who accept-
ed the agreement, ordered the reconstruction of the castle to be
rearranged and gave the city the name “Alaiye”, in reference to

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