Apollon Smintheion
Smintheion
Apollon Smintheion at Gülpınar in Çanakkale's Ayvacık district was a major Late Hellenistic sanctuary of the Troad, known for a temple of Apollo with Iliad reliefs and a mouse emblem.
Period
Hellenistic Period
323 BCE – 30 BCE
Ancient cities
Arykanda
Arykanda, Arykawanda, Akalanda, Orykanda
Arycanda sits at the foot of a tall rock face, as its name says, and spreads over terraces: theatre, stadium, bath-gymnasium and monumental tombs rise up the slope above Finike.
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.
Blaundos
Blaundos, Blaundus, Mlaundos, Blaundeon Makedonon
Blaundos is a Hellenistic and Roman city in Ulubey, Uşak, built on a headland cut off by deep valleys on three sides, near Sülümenli village.
Castabala (Kastabala-Hierapolis)
Hierapolis, Kastabala, Castabala, Hierapolis-Kastabala
Kastabala (Castabala-Hierapolis) is a Cilician city near Osmaniye on the Ceyhan plain, known for its colonnaded street, theatre, churches and Bodrum Castle.
Claros
Klaros, Claros
Claros near Izmir was an oracle sanctuary of Apollo, known for the only Doric temple in Ionia, its altar, a hundred-animal tethering block and giant cult statues found in place.
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.
UNESCO
Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape
Amida, Amidi
Diyarbakır's 5.8 km of walls, Inner Castle and the Hevsel Gardens by the Tigris span Roman to Ottoman history; a World Heritage Site since 2015.
UNESCO
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.
Euromos
Europos, Euromos, Philippoi, Hyromos, Kyromos, Eurome, Kyramos
Euromos is a Carian city on the slopes of Kızılbayır hill near Milas, best known for its 2nd-century CE Corinthian Temple of Zeus Lepsynos.
UNESCO
Gordion
Gordium, Vindia, Yassıhöyük
Gordion near Polatlı was Phrygia's royal seat; the 300 m wide Midas Mound holds the oldest known upright timber building. It joined the World Heritage List in 2023.