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Anazarbos, Anazarba, Anazarbus, Caesarea, Ioustinianoupolis, Aynızarba
Anazarbus, known in Turkish as Anavarza, is a large Roman-Byzantine city of the Cilician plain near Kozan, with a colonnaded street, the Ala Kapı gate and a medieval citadel.
Halikarnassos
The theatre on the southern slope of Göktepe in Bodrum belonged to ancient Halicarnassus; the Ministry dates it to the 4th century BCE, and it still hosts events.
Andriake, Andriaca, Andriakos
Andriake was the harbour of Myra at Çayağzı in Demre; its Hadrianic granary now houses the Museum of Lycian Civilisations, and it also has murex workshops and a synagogue.
Anemurium, Eski Anamur
An abandoned Roman harbour city on the slopes of Cape Anamur, with tombs standing to the roof, mosaic-floored baths and an odeon; its name means windy place.
UNESCO
Ani near Kars is a medieval Bagratid capital with Armenian, Seljuk and Georgian monuments on the Armenian border; a World Heritage Site since 2016.
UNESCO
Aphrodisias, Ninoe, Stauropolis
Aphrodisias, in Karacasu, Aydın: a Carian city of Aphrodite with a 270 m stadium, a marble sculpture school and the Sebasteion, a World Heritage Site since 2017.
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.
Arsameia am Nymphaios, Arsameia pros Nymphaio, Eski Kale, Arsamea
Arsameia on the Nymphaios (Eski Kale) is the summer capital of the Commagene kingdom beside the Kahta stream, known for a long Greek inscription, handshake reliefs and a 158 m rock tunnel.
UNESCO
Melid, Meliddu, Malitiya
Arslantepe in Malatya is a mound whose Late Chalcolithic palace and Royal Tomb document early forms of administration; a World Heritage Site since 2021.
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.
Near Aksaray, the first known village of Central Anatolia: the earliest mud-brick architecture, signs of the shift to farming and rebuilt Neolithic houses at the entrance.
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.
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