Telmessos (or Telmessus), after Anastasiopolis, again Makri/Macre was the better city-limits in Lycia, abreast the Carian border, and is sometimes abashed with Telmessos in Caria. The well-protected anchorage of Telmessos is afar from the Gulf of Telmessos by an island.
History of Telmessos
Telmessos (or afield Telmissis) was a blooming city-limits west of Lycia, on the Gulf of Fethiye. It was acclaimed for its academy of diviners, consulted a part of others by the Lydian baron Croesus, above-mentioned to declaring war adjoin Cyrus, and by Alexander the Great, if he came to the boondocks afterwards the annoy of Halicarnassus.
Telmessos was a affiliate of the Delian League in the 5th aeon BC. It was taken by Alexander in 334 BC.
Telmessos was renamed Anastasiopolis in the 8th century, allegedly in honour of Emperor Anastasios II, but this name did not persist.
By the 10th century, it came to be alleged Makri, afterwards the name of the island at the access to the harbor.
Its charcoal are amid at Fethiye.
Although the history of Fethiye, or with its age-old name Telmessos, which is the alone centermost area adjustment connected from its enactment on Mediterranean bank bandage until today, goes aback to 3rd bags BC in accordance with some philological determinations, monuments that would absolutely those periods has not been encountered, yet. Many earthquakes that happened back the age-old aeon and new adjustment compassionate acquired the dematerialization of age-old aeon barrio by time. But the graves engraved into the rocks at the south of the avant-garde city-limits and the sarcophaguses at altered locations of the city-limits are evaluated as age-old charcoal that accomplished today from the age-old period. The a lot of famous, and the a lot of arresting of the bedrock graves is assuredly Amyntas grave in accordance with the inscription on the larboard ante wall. The theatre ruin that is apparent in the excavations agitated out by the building in contempo years provides some advice about the blueprint and alignment of the city-limits in age-old period.