Alanya / Antalya / Turkey |  On the easttern boundary of antalya, the first settlement until situated on a peninsula steeply plunging into the sea, at an altitude of 250 m and 800 m in length, surrounded by natural beaches on both sides, later expanded down to the beginning of the eastern littoral. Today, the area considered as one of the foremost centres of Turkish tourism is covered with banana and citrus fruit plantations. It is known that the city was named "Korakassa/karakassa" meaning "point/Protruding City" in the Etruscan/Luwian language which name became Korakession in the antique pamphylia.
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