Period

Hellenistic Period

323 BCE – 30 BCE

Ancient cities

Phaselis

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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.

Pinara

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Pinara

Pinara, Pinale

Pinara is a Lycian city near Minare village below Mount Babadağ in Fethiye, known for its round acropolis, hundreds of rock tombs, odeon, agora and theatre.

Pisidian Antioch

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Pisidian Antioch

Antiochia, Col. Caesarea, Antiochia Pisidia

Pisidian Antioch (Pisidia Antiokheia) is a Seleucid-founded city near Yalvaç, Isparta, noted for its Temple of Augustus, theatre and the Basilica of St Paul.

Priene

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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.

Rumkale

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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

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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.

Sardis UNESCO

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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)

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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

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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.

Teos

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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

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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.