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History and Sights
Reliable, (some tourist-fooling)
Alanya Ruins and Museum. Elegant, lengthy history and description from the Turkish Ministry of Culture.
Brief history of Alanya from the Antalya-website. Also good is their historical sites, although some of these sites are rather far from Alanya.
Academic
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites: Alanya. Short entry. The Perseus Project.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Coracesium by S. Petrides (1908 article).
Georgetown's McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, in Alanya.
Plutarch, Life of Pompey mentions Coracesium briefly (Internet Classics Archive)
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The Istanbul Mosaic Museum on the Web. Guide and gallery of images from this wonderful Istanbul museum.
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Gouden Hoorn / Golden Horn. Journal about Byzantium. (Hosted here, but edited independently)