Monument· İskenderun, Hatay
Yunus Sütunu
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Editor's Note
Jonah's Pillar (Yunus Sütunu) is a historic ruin in the Sarıseki neighborhood of İskenderun, Hatay, where the steep Sarıseki Canyon meets the Mediterranean. Now reduced to heaps of stone, it once consisted of two parallel walls running down to the sea and served as the 'Cilician Gate' controlling the strategic passage between Syria and Cilicia in antiquity. Described by Xenophon in the Anabasis as a fortified pass during the Persian period, it lost its importance after Alexander the Great took the region in 333 BC and founded İskenderun. Its name comes from a local belief that the prophet Jonah came ashore here from the belly of the fish.
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- 36.6562°N · 36.2140°E
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