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It continued to be an important city and pilgrimage center for Christians during the Byzantine period, and was captured by the Turks in 1304. The city, later named Ayasuluk, became the capital of Aydinugulari Principality for a period after 1350. It was a port city in western Anatolia in the early Ottoman period. The forts inner walls date back to the Seljuk Ottoman era. The inner castle has two entrances, one in the west and the other in the east. Inside the citadel, there are five cisterns near the gates, a one-domed mosque (Kali Mosque) in the southern part of the central part with a partially intact minaret, the palace and bathhouse of the Turkish period, and another cistern in the upper western part.
