Tlos
Tlos, Tlawa, Dalawa
Tlos is a Lycian city at the foot of the Akdağlar in Seydikemer, known for the Bellerophon tomb, theatre, stadium and acropolis, on UNESCO's Tentative List since 2009.
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Tripolis
Apollonia, Antoniopolis, Tripolis
Tripolis, in the Buldan district of Denizli, was a Hellenistic city founded as Apollonia on a trade route at the edge of Lydia, excavated since 2012 for its colonnaded street, agora and fountain.
UNESCO
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.
Uzuncaburç (Diocaesarea)
Diokaisareia, Diocaesarea, Diocaesarea (Tanrı-İmparator Kenti)
Uzuncaburç is ancient Diocaesarea in Rough Cilicia, north of Silifke, a city grown around the Zeus Olbios sanctuary and noted for its temple, Hellenistic tower and colonnaded streets.
UNESCO
Xanthos
Ksanthos, Arnna, Ξάνθος
Xanthos was the capital of ancient Lycia, known for its monumental tombs and the longest Lycian inscription; it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List with Letoon in 1988.
Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop
Yesemek, near İslahiye, was the largest quarry and sculpture workshop of the Near East in Hittite and Late Hittite times, now an open-air museum of gate-lion blanks.
Zelve and Paşabağları
Zelve is a three-valley rock settlement on the northern slopes of Aktepe near Avanos; with neighbouring Paşabağları it holds Cappadocia's densest cluster of fairy chimneys.
Zeugma Archaeological Site
Seleukeia pros to Euphrate, Zuqarri, Apameia
Zeugma at Nizip, Gaziantep, is an ancient Euphrates city with a Roman legion base and rich villas, famed for its mosaics and partly flooded by the Birecik Dam.