Softa Castle
The castle is one of the castles of the late Roman Empire. It was also used during the Byzantine Empire period. Its original name is Sycae. It was taken by Ertokuş Bey, one of the commanders of the Anatolian Seljuk State, in the 13th century. In the last period of the Anatolian Seljuk State, it was first captured by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and then by the Karamanoğlu Principality. The castle was last inhabited during the Karamanoğlu Principality. In the 1470s, Gedik Ahmet Pasha, one of the viziers of the Ottoman Empire, added the castle to the Ottoman lands. The entrance to the ruined castle is from the west. It is an oval shaped castle. Its narrowest dimension is 80 meters. There are a palace, several cisterns, a Roman bath and a mosque ruins in the castle. There are many tombs on the southern slope outside the castle.
