Aigai
Aigai, Aegae, Nemrutkale, Köseler Kalesi
Aigai is an Aeolian hill city on Mount Yunt in Manisa, known for its three-storey Hellenistic agora building, bouleuterion, theatre, macellum and Athena sanctuary.
Civilization
Hellenic
Ancient cities
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Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias, Ninoe, Stauropolis
Aphrodisias, in Karacasu, Aydın: a Carian city of Aphrodite with a 270 m stadium, a marble sculpture school and the Sebasteion, a World Heritage Site since 2017.
Aspendos
Aspendos, Primoupolis, Estvediys, Belkıs
The two-storey stage building of the Aspendos theatre still stands to full height. This Pamphylian city near Serik also has an aqueduct arcade over a kilometre long.
Assos
Assos, Apollonia, Behramkale
A city on an extinct volcano at Behramkale where Aristotle lived for three years: Anatolia's only Archaic Doric temple, city walls, agora, theatre and a sarcophagus necropolis.
Didyma (Temple of Apollo)
Didyma, Branchidai, Ioustinianopolis, Didim
The Temple of Apollo at Didyma had no roof over its heart: an open court held a sacred spring and a tiny shrine. Built for an oracle, it was never finished; a Sacred Way led to it from Miletus.
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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.
Harran
Carrhae, Harran, Ḥarrān, Charris
Harran, 44 km south of Şanlıurfa in the middle of its own plain, is an ancient settlement known for its walls, citadel, Great Mosque and beehive-style mudbrick houses.
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Hierapolis (Pamukkale)
Hierapolis is an ancient spa and pilgrimage city beside the Pamukkale terraces near Denizli; with the travertines it has been a World Heritage Site since 1988.
Knidos
Cnidus, Knidos, Palaia Knidos (Burgaz)
Knidos, on Cape Tekir in Datça, is a terraced Dorian city that filled in the sea to gain two harbours; famed for its wine and Praxiteles's Aphrodite, its theatre stone ended up in Istanbul and Cairo.
Laodikeia
Laodicea ad Lycum, Diospolis, Rhoas, Roas, Trimitaria, Ladik
Laodikeia's 285 m marble stadium is the largest in Anatolia; the city also has two theatres, a colonnaded main street and a church counted among the Seven Churches of Asia.
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Letoon
Letoon, four kilometres south-west of Xanthos, was the Lycian federal sanctuary of Leto, Artemis and Apollo, known for three temples, partly flooded foundations and a trilingual inscription.
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.