TURKEY

TURKEY / TÜRKİYE.

Tourism.
Alanya City and Bay.
Last stamp in a set of 5, issued on 05.04.1965.
Face value: 130 Turkish kuruş.
Printed by APA Offset Basimevi.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1948.
- Scott No. 1643.
- StampWorld No. 1992.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2094.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1731.

Alanya, formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a district of Antalya Province on the southern coast of Turkey, in the Mediterranean Region. As of 2010 census, the city had a population of 98,627. Because of its natural strategic position on a small peninsula into the Mediterranean Sea below the Taurus Mountains, Alanya has been a local stronghold for many Mediterranean-based empires, including the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Alanya's greatest political importance came in the Middle Ages, with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm under the rule of Alaeddin Kayqubad I, from whom the city derives its name.