Period

Bronze Age

Ancient cities

Labraunda

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Labraunda

Labraunda, Labranda, Lambraunda, Labraynda

A Carian mountain sanctuary above Milas, reached by a paved Sacred Way: a rock split as if by lightning, the double-axe Zeus, and the marble banqueting halls of the Hekatomnid satraps.

Lagina

Turkey Sanctuary

Lagina

Lagina, Leyne

Lagina, in Yatağan district of Muğla, was a major Carian cult centre linked to Stratonikeia by a sacred road; it is known for its Temple of Hecate, monumental gate and stoas.

Laodikeia

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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.

Didyma (Temple of Apollo)

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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.

Perge

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Perge

Perge, Parha

Two Hellenistic towers from the 3rd century BCE greet visitors to Perge. This Pamphylian city near Aksu is known for its colonnaded street, theatre and stadium.

Side

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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.

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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.

Troy UNESCO

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Troy

Ilium, Troia, Hisarlık

Nine cities stacked on the Hisarlik mound: Troy, in Çanakkale, holds over three thousand years of unbroken settlement and the setting of the Iliad's siege.