Etenna, which is 29 km. arctic of Manavgat, is founded on the hill, is at the high allotment of today’s Sirt Village. At the top of the city, it is anticipation as a abbey centermost during Byzantium period, there is an Acropolis, which is composed of terraces amidst by ramparts, and at the best preserved and accomplished slopes of the city. There is a Herron (a tomb for an astral person) at the south of the city. Basilica, agora, church, hamam and cisterns are important actual charcoal added than these.
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Side - Etenna
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Side - Seleukeia (Lyrbe)
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
This aged city, which is 23 km. northeast of Side, and one hour abroad from Sinler Village by foot, is founded by Selevkos. There is a actual admirable accustomed actualization of the caper city, which is abnormally adorned with ache forests. From the city, which is placed on a hill, you can see all plains and sea.
Kemer - Chimera
Friday, April 11th, 2008
THE ANTIQUE CITY IS ON BOTH SIDES OF A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY. A SANDY BEACH IS FOUND WHERE THE TOWN AND THE VALLEY MEET THE SEA, INTO WHICH A MOUNTAIN STREAM FLOWS. AN HOURS WALK FROM OLYMPOS BRINGS YOU TO THE NATURAL PHENOMENON OF THE CHIMERA. KNOWN BY THE INHABITANTS AS THE BURNING MOUNTAIN, IT IS A RESULT OF ESCAPING NATURAL GAS, WHOSE FLAMES HAVE BEEN SHOOTING HEAVENWARDS FOR CENTURIES. THE PATH TO THE CHIMERA IS NARROW AND STEEP BUT IS WELL MARKED. (more…)
Kemer - Olympos
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Olympos is the Greek word/name “Ολυμπος”. Olympos is in a basin at the south bank of Turkey, 90 km southwest of Antalya city-limits abreast the Town of Kemer.The city-limits was founded in the Hellenistic period, apparently demography its name from adjacent Mount Olympos (Turkish: Tahtalı Dağı), or Tahtali Dag (Timber Mountains), one of over twenty mountains with the name Olympos in the Classical world.The bill of the city-limits of Olympos date aback to the 2nd aeon BC. It was declared by Cicero as an age-old city-limits abounding of abundance and works of art (Cicero, Against Verres II, 1, 4). The city-limits became one of the six arch cities of the Lycian federation. In the 1st aeon BC, Olympos was invaded and acclimatized by Cilician pirates. This concluded in 78 BC, if the Roman administrator Publius Servilius Isaurieus, accompanied by the adolescent Julius Caesar, took the city-limits afterwards a achievement at sea, and added Olympos to the Roman Empire. The charlatan Zenicetes set blaze to his own abode and asleep (Strabo, XIV, p5, Loeb ed.) The emperor Hadrian visited the city-limits afterwards which it took the name of Hadrianopolis for a period, in his honour.
Kemer - Phaselis
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Phaselis is an age-old Lycian city-limits in the arena of Antalya in Turkey. It is amid amid the Bey Mountains and the forests of Olympos National Park, 16 km west of the touristic boondocks of Kemer and on the 57th kilometre of the Antalya Kumluca highway. Phaselis and added age-old towns about the bank can aswell be accessed from the sea by circadian yacht tours. (more…)
Antalya - Antiphellos (Kas)
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Not abundant charcoal from this city-limits back it was accustomed on top of the old city-limits of Antiphellos in Central Lycia. From an inscription accounting in two languages, we can see that the city-limits beneath Kas was Antiphellos. But the old name of Kas is Habesos. In the ninth aeon B.C., Antiphellos was a actual baby adjustment assemblage and it was the anchorage of Phellos, which is a bit arctic of Kas. As the hallenistic age began, Phellos absent its accent while Antiphellos developed and came to the fore. This stuation aswell connected in the Roman era and Antiphellos developed added by cedar timberline barter and blot fishing. At that time, the city-limits was no best a anchorage of Phellos but rather a affluent and arrogant city.
Antalya - Limyra
Monday, March 17th, 2008Believed to have been In existence since the 5th century, Limyra is still in existence despite a massive earthquake in the mid 19th century although was emptied in the 7th and 9th centuries after the Arab invasions. The city, which is 11 km south, composes of three section; the acropolis, areas of settlement, and necropolis.
Antalya - Demre (Myra)
Monday, March 17th, 2008Demre was one of the a lot of Important cities of the Lyclan civilisation. 25km west of Finike and 48km east of Kas, Demre was a abode of adjustment from the 5th aeon BC. The city-limits was bare in 9 A.D aflerthe invasions of the Arabs. Rock tombs, theatres and the Church of St Nicholas (said to be the aboriginal Santa Claus) are the a lot of absorbing sites in the boondocks today.
Antalya - Patara
Monday, March 17th, 2008It Is on Kalkan-Fethiye road.nearly 10 km afore Kalkan and is amid at the south.. The bright ceramics in the centermost of the city-limits acknowledge that the history of the city-limits alcove backto 5 B.C. Besides its getting the bearing abode of St Nicholas, it was one of the a lot of important seaports during the times of Alexander the Great Three gated city-limits walls,one of which leads to Patara.was complete by the governor Modestus in 110. One of the a lot of important debris is the amphitheater currently active underthe bright clear albino beaches of Patara.
Antalya - Xanthos
Monday, March 17th, 2008Founded on the Xanthos river basln.Xanthos Is the better and the a lot of age-old city-limits of Lycia. Having getting remained absolute till the invasions of the Persians In 4292 B.C,Xanthos approved harder to avert adjoin the Invasionsjhowever, aloft acumen the limited achievement the humans of Xanthos aboriginal murdered their women again commited suicide as a whole.Afterwards 80 ancestors Imigrating to the arena refounded the city-limits but about 100 years after the city-limits was absolutely destroyed by a abundant fire. Reesatblished city-limits accordingly strengtened its affiliation with west and became an Important center.Still the city-limits can not be adored from misfortune. Aloft afraid to the taxes of the Roman Brutus, the city-limits was broke and the humans were abject Into war. And Xanthos became the city-limits of catastrophe.