An Ancient Road-System in The South-Western Antitaurus(Summuray)

Year 1959, Volume: 23 Issue: 89, 74 - 78, 20.01.1959

U. Bahadır Alkım

Abstract

During our excavations at Karatepe from 1947 to 1952 and in 1955 we took the opportunity of exploring a region hitherto unknown in the Antitaurus in order to determine lines of communication from Karatepe to the North and South. The area covered in the investigations lies in the rough arc between Bodrum (Hierapolis-Castabala) -Hemite - Kadirli – Mehmetli and Göksun (Cocusus), some 100 km. to the North .It is composed largely of thickly-wooded mountain complexes which here and there enclose well-watered plateaus of varying size. I should point out that anyone who is to travel from South to North must use the Bağdaş - and Mazgeç Passes to the West, and the Meryemçil Pass to the East (see Map 2), since the mountains form a continuous range.

Keywords

Antitaurus, Karatepe, Hierapolis-Castabala, Kadirli