Özet:

The farmstead located in Bağlıalan in Seyranlık Village, Mersin-Silifke and belonged to the 3rd-4th century A.D. was built on a hill dominating small plains where agricultural production could be carried out on a mountainous area. The farmstead included a farm house, residences, storehouses, chamasoriums and production equipment. The church dated between the second half of the 5th century and 6th century with a courtyard and a three nave basilical plan was located to the southwest of the farm.  The church is made of large stones. The south, east and west wall of the church is partially. The north wall of the narthex collapsed in the foundation. Naos is divided into ships by a triple support system consisting of the columns in the middle and the piers in the north and south. The southern row of sheets was destroyed and the northern row of sheets survived. On the sides of the pillars between the two pillars there are crosses in the medallion and ram heads in the corners. The church which is the symbol of economic power of the farm complex depending on production and the religion of the inhabitants lost its function within the 7th century A.D. with the settlement and as understood from the mural paintings on the northern side chamber, it was used again between the second half of the 10th century A.D. and the first half of the 13th century A.D.  The control of the agricultural production in Cilicia-Isauria Region where feudal land tenure was adopted as an administrative system was maintained by sanctuaries, towers, farms, villages, and churches from the Hellenistic Period to the Byzantine Period as a tradition. Seyranlık-Bağlıalan settlement belonging to Seleukeia ad Calycadnum, an administrative and religious centre of the late antiquity, is one of the important examples of this tradition in Mountainous Cilicia.

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