They were built with quarry stone, grog and brick and there
are one each arched spans, which open to the sea on walls at adjoining spaces
with collapsed cover of vault. Based on expression about trade by travelers
like Ibn Battuta, Evliya Celebi for city identity of old part of Alanya and
becoming a popular place for merchants of Egypt, Venice and Genoese, it can be
said that these spaces served as entrepôts. Ibrahim Hakki Konyali wrote in his
Alanya book that there was a wide wharf for docking between Shipyard and Red
Tower, it was protected by tower of Red Tower and Cannon House and depots were
kept for ship equipments, supplies and ammunition in the city side of the
wharf, but a part of wharf and depots were demolished.
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