Priene
Priene, Samson
Priene, called the Pompeii of Asia Minor, climbs the slope of Mycale with a gridded street plan, an Athena temple, a theatre and houses that preserve Hellenistic town life.
Civilization
Roman
Ancient cities
Rumkale
Shitamrat, Kal-a Rhomayta, Hromklay, Ranculat, Kal-at el Rum, Kal-at el Muslimin, Kale-i Zerrin
Rumkale, in Gaziantep's Yavuzeli district, is a cliff-top fortress where the Merzimen stream meets the Euphrates, ringed on three sides by a reservoir and once an Armenian Catholicosate seat.
Sagalassos
Sagalassos, Σαγαλασσός
Sagalassos is a Pisidian city high in the Taurus at 1500-1700 m. Fountains, a library and a stadium turned into churches make it one of Asia Minor's best-preserved ancient cities.
UNESCO
Sardis
Sardis, Sfar-, Sparda
The Lydian capital near Manisa where coinage was invented: the Temple of Artemis, the biggest synagogue of the ancient world and the huge Bin Tepe tumuli. World Heritage since 2025.
Seleucia Pieria (Çevlik)
Seleukeia Pieria, Seleucia Pieria, Hydatos Potamoi
Seleucia Pieria is an ancient Seleucid port city at Çevlik in Samandağ, Hatay, known for the Titus Tunnel and the rock tombs of Beşikli Cave.
Side
Side, Sidē, Sibdē, Selimiye
Side, a Pamphylian harbour town on a narrow peninsula near Manavgat, is known for a theatre on an artificial slope of arches and vaults, its Apollo and Athena temples and a museum in a Roman bath.
Simena Archaeological Site (Kaleköy)
Simena, Kaleköy
Simena, the Lycian town beneath today's Kaleköy on the peninsula facing Kekova Island, is known for its castle, a tiny rock-cut theatre, a necropolis and partly submerged remains.
Soğanlı Valley
Soğanlı is a valley site in Yeşilhisar district full of rock-cut churches, caves and dovecotes; eight churches can be visited and their frescoes follow a 10th to 12th century style.
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.
Syedra Ancient City
Syedra, Syedreon, Sedre, Syagra
Syedra, east of Alanya, combines mountain and coastal character; it is known for a 250 m colonnaded street, a bath, a gymnasium and cave cisterns.
Teos
Teos, Athamantis
Teos is a two-harbour Ionian port city at Seferihisar, known for its Hellenistic wall, Temple of Dionysus, theatre and bouleuterion; Ankara University runs the excavation.
Termessos
Termessos, Τερμησσὸς
Termessos stands about 1,050 m up in Güllük Mountain National Park north of Antalya: a Pisidian city that Alexander the Great could not take, still full of walls, tombs and a theatre.