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.
Period
Archaic Period
800 BCE – 480 BCE
Ancient cities
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.
Clazomenae
Klazomenai, Khyton
One of the twelve Ionian cities of the Gulf of Izmir, beside modern Urla, with the oldest olive-oil workshop yet found in Anatolia and an Archaic city wall.
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.
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.
Magnesia on the Maeander
Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Magnesia epi Maiandro, Magnesia hē Asianē, Leukophrys, Tekke, Tekin
Magnesia on the Maeander is a Hellenistic city beside the Gümüşçay in Germencik, Aydın, famed for Hermogenes' Temple of Artemis Leukophryene, its agora and stadium.
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.
Phaselis
Phaselis
A 125 m paved street links two of Phaselis's three harbours; Roman aqueducts, a small theatre and Hadrian's gateway stand in the pine woods of this Lycian coast port.
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.
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.
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.