{"id":5319,"date":"2020-07-12T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.expo2021hatay.com\/?page_id=5319"},"modified":"2020-09-30T01:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:40:30","slug":"hatay-tarihi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/expo2021hatay.com\/en\/hatay\/culture\/history-of-hatay\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Hatay"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hatay (Antakya and \u0130skenderun) is the gateway of Silk Road to the Mediterranean Sea. For thousands of years, Hatay has been on the trade routes and energy routes, and it is almost as the centre of the world at the intersection of Asia, Europe and Africa. Due to negative events, wars and diplomatic disagreements in the region, Hatay unfortunately could not come to the place it deserves in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The history of Hatay is as old as the history of mankind. The settlement is more pronounced with the transition from hunting to agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the development of agriculture in the region, cities and residential areas were formed and the first settlement began with the very civilized Turanian tribe of the Middle East. This settlement continued with Hittite (Etiler-Atalar), a Turanian tribe from central Asia. The fact that the sculpture of the last Hittite King Suppiluliuma was found in Hatay during the excavations is the biggest evidence. In the past, since the area is much wooded, buildings and settlements are usually made of wood. At the same time, because of being an extremely rich region, it has been subjected to external invasion, and as a result, there is little left to date as the cities made of wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the death of the Alexander, Seleukos, (Silig-os: Silig means the name of the son of the Turkish Khan in the Orkhon Inscriptions, and the similar equivalent of this name in today\u2019s Turkish is SEL\u00c7UK) whose mother is Turkish and who carries a Turkish name, founded the city of Antakya by taking over the empire. Later, the region entered into the sovereigns of Persia, Sassanid, Byzantine, Abbasid Tolunogullar\u0131, Aksits,<\/p>\n\n\n\n