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when Eleni remembers all the beauties of Alanya, she will return
to obedience and consent to this marriage in order to regain
these beauties. But her father’s expectations were in vain. Be-
cause Eleni neither regrets nor agrees to give up the shepherd
she loves to marry the plundering pirate Vasili. From that day
onwards, Eleni, from the tiny window of the dark cell where she
was imprisoned, with her tears day and night irrigated the bar-
ren hill reaching down to Damlataş. After a while, laurel, pome-
granate and oleaster trees grew on this barren hill. Since that
day, whenever it rains, the people of Alanya with the fresh scent
of the laurel have felt the effect of Eleni’s tears.

Fig.123: Alanya Castle Walls. Photograph A. Kılınç

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