•Payas- Yakacik : name from Arabic = white from snow-capped Mt. Amanos
•Remains of Roman baths on the beach
•The Payas river (ancient Pinaros river) where the battle of Issos, also 2 other battles in the middle ages
Iskenderum (Alexandretta)
•At the foot of the Nur (Amanos) mountains
•A small Syrian-Christian community
•1939 republic of Hatay joined Turkey after a referendum
Samandag
•Mouth of Orontes river, near ancient Seleucia Pierias founded 300 BC
•Has an amphitheatre, cemetery, temples, triple line of walls
•Mostly Arabic (Alawite), Aramaic, Christian, also a nearby village mostly Armenian (last remaining Armenian community)
•Apostle Paul started his first trip from here & passed several times later
•Devastated in the 526 earthquake
•During the crusades, it was known as Port Saint Simeon
Selefkia Pierias
Cevlik Monastery
•an early Christian monastery carved from rock about 35 miles from Antakya near the sea. It is a relief carved from stone belonged to Charonion (Hell boatman in mythology) 200 m from north of the Saint Pierre church
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