PAMPHYLIA AND PISIDIA I

Adalia vvas captured in 1207 by the Seljuk Turks under Sullan Gıyasettin Keyhüsrev I (r. 1204-10), and in Turkish it came to be called Antalya. Late in Ihe thirteenth century Antalya fell to the Hamitoğlu Türkmen tribe, vvhose chieftain soon gave it över to his vassal, the emir of the Tekke beylik. The Tekke emirs held Antalya until 1361, when it vvas captured by Peter de Lusignan I, king of Cyprus, vvho kept it until he vvas assassinated eight years later. The city then reverted to the Hamitoğlu, vvho held it until it vvas captured by Murat I in 1387, after vvhich it became a per-manent part of the Ottoman empire.
Like most other tovvns in Anatolia, Antalya had a substantial populalion of non-Muslim minorities in Turkish times, vvith each cthnic or religious group living in its ovvn quarter, as the fourteenth-century Arab traveler Ibn Battuta remarks in his Journal:
From Alaya |Alanya| I vvent to Antaliya, a most bcautiful city. İt covers an immense area, and though of vast bulk is onc of the most atlractive towns to be seen anywhere. besides bcing exceedingly populous and vvell laid out. Each section of the inhabitants lives in a separate quarter. The Christian merehants livc in a qııarter of the lo\vn known as the Mina |the Port|. and are surrounded by a vvall, the gates of vvhich are shut upon them from vvith-out at night and during the Friday service. The Greeks, vvho vvere its former inhabitants, live by themselves in another, and the king and his court and the mamluks in another, each of these quarters being vvalled off likevvise. The rest of the Muslims live in the main city. Round the vvhole tovvn and ali the quarters mentioned there is another great vvall.The tovvn contains many orchards and produces fine fruit, ineluding an admirable kind of apricot, called by them Qamar ad-Din, vvhich has a svveet almond in its kernel. This fruit is dried and exported to Egypt, vvhere it is regardcd as a great luxury.
Ibn Battuta goes on to teli of an cvening he spent in Antalya at a hospice run by the local branch of the Ahi, a Müslim broth-erhood organized by the craft guilds of Anatolia, vvho vvere famous for thcir hospitality: