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Selge
Antalya, Köprülü Canyon area, Turkey
Selge occupied a natural fortress at 1,250 metres in the Taurus, overlooking the gorges of what is now Köprülü Canyon National Park....
Kerkenes Dağ
Yozgat, Sorgun / Şahmuratlı, Turkey
Kerkenes Dağ is an Iron Age city that lasted barely a century before Croesus burned it to the ground and left it sealed in fire....
Uzuncaburç
Silifke, Mersin, Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Uzuncaburç was once the divine capital of the Olba kingdom, where a priestly dynasty ruled in the name of Zeus Olbios....
Cyaneae
Yavu / Kaş region, Antalya, Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Cyaneae stands on a hill above the village of Yavu in western Lycia, its streets lined with more sarcophagi than any other known Lycian city....
Kültepe-Kanesh
Kayseri, Kocasinan district, 20 km NE of Kayseri, Turkey
Kültepe-Kanesh is where writing came to Anatolia. Beneath an unassuming mound northeast of Kayseri lie 23,500 cuneiform tablets—the oldest written documents from this part...
Kibyra
Gölhisar, Burdur, Mediterranean Region, Turkey
At the junction of four ancient Anatolian worlds — Lycia, Caria, Pisidia, and Phrygia — Kibyra built one of the most complete stadiums in the ancient world, carved...
Zeugma
Nizip / Belkıs, Gaziantep, Southeast Anatolia Region, Turkey
Zeugma stood for two millennia where the Euphrates divided the Greek and Persian worlds....
Antiphellos
Antalya, Kaş, Turkey
Antiphellos was a Lycian harbor city whose ancient necropolis of rock-cut tombs and sarcophagi has never been separated from daily life....
Aperlai
Antalya, Kekova region, Turkey
Aperlai was a Lycian harbor city that produced Tyrian purple — the most valuable dye of antiquity, reserved for emperors and gods — and whose fortification walls now...
Aspendos
Serik, Antalya, Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Aspendos is the site of the most intact Roman theatre on earth — its full stage building standing two stories high as it was constructed in the 2nd–3rd century CE, still...
Alinda
Aydın, Karpuzlu, Turkey
Alinda stands on a twin-acropolis hill above the town of Karpuzlu in Caria, commanding a view across one of Anatolia's most fertile plains....
Olympos
Antalya, Çıralı, Turkey
Olympos is a Lycian city where a ruined valley opens onto a beach and a mountainside above burns with perpetual natural flame....
Stratonikeia
Muğla, Yatağan, Turkey
Stratonikeia was the unique Carian city linked by sacred procession roads to two major divine sanctuaries: the Temple of Hecate at Lagina and the Temple of Zeus...
Sagalassos
Burdur, Ağlasun, Turkey
Set at 1,450–1,700 metres in the Taurus Mountains, Sagalassos rose from a Hittite-era predecessor to become Rome's most lavishly honoured city in Pisidia....
Ariassus
Döşemealtı/Antalya, Turkey
Ariassus is a ruined Pisidian and Roman city on a steep hillside above the Döşemealtı district of Antalya, founded in the Hellenistic period and flourishing through the...
Idomenae (Isar, Marvinci)
Marvinci (Valandovo), North Macedonia
Idomenae — identified with the hilltop site of Isar above Marvinci village — was a fortified Macedonian city and later Roman settlement that commanded the Vardar valley...
Oinoanda
Fethiye district / İncealiler, Muğla Province, Aegean Region, Turkey
Oinoanda preserves the largest known philosophical inscription of the ancient world — a monument commissioned by the elderly Epicurean Diogenes of Oenoanda in the 2nd...
Arykanda
Antalya, Elmalı–Finike road, Turkey
Arykanda rises in five terraces against a near-vertical mountain cliff at roughly 1,000 meters in the Taurus range....
Phaselis
Antalya, Kemer / Tekirova, Turkey
Phaselis was founded by Greek colonists from Lindos in the late 7th century BC, built around three natural harbors at the edge of the Lycian coast, and carried a legendary...
Bylazora
Knezhje (Sveti Nikole), North Macedonia
Bylazora was the chief city of the ancient Paeonians, a civilization that occupied the Vardar valley before Macedonian expansion and left almost no written record....
Rhodiapolis
Antalya, Kumluca, Turkey
Rhodiapolis stands on a hill above the Kumluca plain, largely unvisited, carrying one of the most extraordinary monuments in the ancient world: the mausoleum of Opramoas,...
Pedasa
Muğla, Bodrum, Turkey
Pedasa occupies a hilltop above the Bodrum peninsula, its Lelegian walls and 6th-century Athena temple surviving among pine and wild herb....
Limyra
Antalya, Finike, Turkey
Limyra was the capital of Lycia under King Pericles in the fourth century BCE — a city of more than 400 rock-cut tombs, a royal hero shrine, and a Temple of Zeus known...
Alabanda
Aydın, Çine, Turkey
Alabanda is a quiet, largely unexcavated Carian city in the hills above the Çine plain, formally declared inviolable sacred territory by the ancient Chrysaorian League....
Sidyma
Muğla, Seydikemer, Turkey
Sidyma is one of the most evocative unexcavated Lycian cities: approximately 100 tomb monuments — pillar tombs, house tombs, sarcophagi on podia — scattered through the...
Termessos
Antalya, Güllük Dağı, Turkey
Termessos stands on a near-inaccessible summit of Güllük Dağı at almost 1,000 metres, ringed by cliffs that turned back Alexander the Great in 333 BCE....
Side
Manavgat, Antalya, Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Side was one of the great port cities of ancient Pamphylia — a dense peninsula-city of temples, theatres, and harbor gates, unique in having its own indigenous language...
Troy
Çanakkale, Tevfikiye; 39°57′23.184″N, 26°14′20.4″E, Turkey
Troy (Troia / Truva) is a multi-period Bronze Age to Roman city mound near Çanakkale, where nine distinct occupation layers span from around 3000 BC to AD 400....
Perge
Aksu, Antalya, Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Perge is one of the most complete Roman-period cities in Turkey — a colonnaded metropolis of theatres, baths, and triumphal gates set in the Pamphylian plain east of...
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