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Korikos kalesi(Maiden kastle)


Korikos kalesi(Maiden kastle)
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Copyright: selda celik (cycle) Gold Star Critiquer [C: 228 W: 0 N: 3] (1851)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-01-27
Categories: Daily Life
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/250 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-01-24 12:05
Viewed: 245
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Strabo does not mention a town of Corycus, but reports a promontory so called at the location, but a town Corycus is mentioned by Livy (xxxiii. 20), and by Pliny (v. 27), and Pomponius Mela (i. 13), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Κώρυκος). In antiquity Corycus was an important harbor and commercial town. It was the port of Seleucia, where, in 191 BCE, the fleet of Antiochus the Great was defeated by the Romans. In the Roman times it preserved its ancient laws; the emperors usually kept a fleet there to watch over the pirates. Corycus was also a mint in antiquity and some of its coins survive
Corycus was controlled by the Byzantine Empire. Justinian I restored the public baths and a hospital. Alexios I Komnenos re-equipped the fortress, which had been dismantled. At the beginning of the 12th century the Byzantines built a supplementary castle on a small island. This castle was later called "maidens castle" (Turkish: Kız kalesi), because it was told that a king held his daughter here in captivity until she was killed by a venomous snake. It was prophesied she would die by a snake bite. So she was taken to the sea castle to protect her, but a serpent was taken by basket to the castle, she was bitten and died. Soon after Corycus was conquered by the Armenians, who held it till the middle of the 14th century, as part of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. In the 14th century, the city was occupied temporarily by the Turks, and for a time played an important part. The city fell to the Lusignans of Cyprus. It was taken by the Mamelukes, and again by Peter I of Cyprus in 1361. In the late 14th century it fell again to the Turks. From 1448 or 1454 it belonged alternately to the Karamanlis, the Egyptians, the Karamanlis a second time, and finally to the Osmanlis.

The ruins of the city are extensive. Among them are a triumphal arch, a necropolis with a beautiful Christian tomb, sarcophagi, etc. The two medieval castles, one on the shore, the other in an islet, connected by a ruined pier, are partially preserved; the former was reputed impregnable. The walls of the castle on the mainland contain many pieces of columns; and a mole of great unhewn rocks projects from one angle of the fortress about a hundred yards across the bay. Three churches are also found, one decorated with frescoes. The walls of the ancient city may still be traced, and there appear to be sufficient remains to invite a careful examination of the spot.

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Selda Abla
Sizi dün tanıdım ama bakış açınıza bayıldım
Muhteşem bir çalışma
İyi haftasonları
Burak

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  • Snoww (0)
  • [2009-01-24 12:30]

Hello Selda,
the perspective is very nice, the place seems
beautiful
Thank you
Snow

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  • Romeu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 332 W: 0 N: 222] (1851)
  • [2009-01-25 4:02]

Olá Selda,

i love the frame on this image. Beautiful light too. Congratulations,

romeu

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  • mbrito Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1626 W: 118 N: 2805] (11304)
  • [2009-01-25 15:50]

Hello Selda
Nice POV with the stones working like a natural frame; excelent light and colours, a wonderful DOF, and a great water movement capture.
Greetings, mb

A small note would help us understand and learn more and more. Amazing photograph. Thanks for sharing.

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  • soe Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 402 W: 0 N: 107] (2461)
  • [2009-01-27 1:41]

Hi Selda,

Great shot with nice composition.

Tin Soe

quite an interesting point of view Selda. a small note would be helpful though.

regards

i a n

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  • RSK Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 512 W: 131 N: 965] (7054)
  • [2009-01-31 17:49]

Greetings Selda,good use of the opening to work as a frame,makes for a strong composition.
TFS

Ron

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