Abstract:

The Hastane Mound, a part of the ancient city Thyateira, located in the centre of Manisa’s district Akhisar, had been inhabited since Prehistoric Ages and was used as the city’s acropolis in antiquity and as a necropolis in one period. The mound, clear that it had been converted into a not very high castle surrounded by walls in the Turkish period, became a serious damage because of massive construction works. A monumental building that was found during the archaelogical excavations on the Hastane Mound, is located on the peak of the mound. The matter that when Evliya Çelebi visited Akhisar in the year 1671 and the remains of this building, which belongs to a temple or an altar and is located eastwards and westwards, could be also seen inside the castle, makes it possible that it was better preserved than its condition today through archaeological excavations.

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