Duzici

Duzici is a town and district of Osmaniye Province within the Mediterranean area of Turkey. It is placed in a small undeniable inside the foothills of the Nur Mountains and 440 m above the ocean degree. Duzici is on a route from the Middle East to Anatolia and has seen numerous armies and campaigns for the duration of the centuries. The ancient names for this web page are minor ciations of Haruniye. Its small fort is on an outcrop approximately 3 kilometers northeast of the city. The fortress turned into built in A.D. 785/86 at some stage in the Abbasid Caliphate with the aid of Harun ar-Rasid as a link in a sequence of Arab defenses along the Nur Daglari.

The Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Phocas captured the 1,500 citizens of Haruniye in 959. When it was recaptured through the Sayf ad-Dawlah in 967, the citadel become repaired. Following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 nomadic Turks started to transport into Anatolia and the close by hills had been quickly settled by way of the Avsar tribe of the Turkmen. The plan of Haruniye Kalesi reveals a compact hold-like shape with a huge tower on the east, which protects a postern gate. There are continuous galleries with pointed vaults inside the north and west partitions which might be opened by way of embrasured arrow slits. The important entrance is on the south. Repairs to the castle may additionally belong to the Teutonic Knights or the Mamluks. The lower degree of the big tower on the east might also have functioned as a cistern.