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Ephesus
Ephesos, Arsinoeia, Arsinoe, Apaša, Ayasuluk, Ufsus
Ephesus is an ancient city beside Selçuk in İzmir, home of the Temple of Artemis, a Seven Wonders monument, and a World Heritage Site since 2015.
Civilization
Anatolian Beyliks
Ancient cities
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Eşrefoğlu Mosque (Beyşehir)
Eşrefoğlu Süleyman Bey Camii, Eşrefoğlu Camisi
Standing by Lake Beyşehir, the Eşrefoğlu Mosque (1296-1299) has 41 timber columns and a tiled mihrab; it is part of a World Heritage series since 2023.
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Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
The Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği in Sivas, founded in 1228-1229 by the Mengücekid Ahmed Shah and his wife Turan Melek, is a UNESCO complex famed for its portals.
Kaunos
Kaunos, Caunus, Kbid, Cano
Across the Dalyan river, 167 rock-cut tombs on Balıklar Mountain line up like temple fronts; silt closed Kaunos's harbour and left the city 8 km from the sea.
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Mahmut Bey Mosque (Kasaba Village)
Mahmud Bey Camii, Kasaba Köyü Camii, Kasabaköy Camii
In Kasaba village near Kastamonu, the Mahmut Bey Mosque of 1366-67 stands on four timber columns and is part of a World Heritage series since 2023.
Metropolis
Metropolis
Metropolis is an Ionian city at Torbalı beneath Mount Gallesion, known for its theatre, bouleuterion, stoa, Peristyle House and Lower Bath-Palaestra.
Miletus
Miletos, Millawanda, Milawanda, Palatia, Balat
Mother city of more than 80 colonies, capital of Ionia and home of Thales, Miletus now lies on a silted plain with its Lion Harbour, theatre and the Sacred Way to Didyma.
Stratonikeia
Stratonikeia, Atriya, Khrysaoris, Idrias, Eskihisar
A Carian city near Yatağan whose ruins are reached along Ottoman paving stones past inhabited village houses: the largest gymnasium known from antiquity and a calendar carved in stone.
Tripolis
Apollonia, Antoniopolis, Tripolis
Tripolis, in the Buldan district of Denizli, was a Hellenistic city founded as Apollonia on a trade route at the edge of Lydia, excavated since 2012 for its colonnaded street, agora and fountain.