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.
Period
Roman Period
27 BCE – 395 CE
Ancient cities
UNESCO
Kaymaklı Underground City
Enegüp
Kaymaklı is a multi-level underground city cut into Cappadocian tuff, known for low narrow passages, a church and a stone with 57 holes; a UNESCO property component.
Kibyra
Kibyra, Cibyra, Kibyratis
Kibyra is a Roman-era city on three hills in Gölhisar, Burdur, famed for its stadium, council hall with a Medusa mosaic, a very large mosaic floor and a long-running university excavation.
Knidos
Cnidus, Knidos, Palaia Knidos (Burgaz)
Knidos, on Cape Tekir in Datça, is a terraced Dorian city that filled in the sea to gain two harbours; famed for its wine and Praxiteles's Aphrodite, its theatre stone ended up in Istanbul and Cairo.
Kültepe (Kanesh-Karum)
Kaniş, Neşa, Kanesh, Nesha
At the foot of Mount Erciyes near Kayseri, ancient Kanesh: a capital mound and its Karum lower town, hub of the Assyrian merchants and source of thousands of cuneiform tablets.
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
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
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.
UNESCO
Letoon
Letoon, four kilometres south-west of Xanthos, was the Lycian federal sanctuary of Leto, Artemis and Apollo, known for three temples, partly flooded foundations and a trilingual inscription.
Limyra
Limyra, Zemuri
Limyra built an empty tomb for Gaius Caesar, adopted son of Augustus; it is also known for King Perikle's monumental tomb, over 400 rock tombs and its acropolis under Mount Toçak.
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.
Metropolis
Metropolis
Metropolis is an Ionian city at Torbalı beneath Mount Gallesion, known for its theatre, bouleuterion, stoa, Peristyle House and Lower Bath-Palaestra.