Syedra Ancient City
Syedra, Syedreon, Sedre, Syagra
Syedra, east of Alanya, combines mountain and coastal character; it is known for a 250 m colonnaded street, a bath, a gymnasium and cave cisterns.
Archaeological and historic sites
Ancient cities in Turkey
Cities founded in antiquity whose remains can be visited.
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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
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.
Tios (Filyos)
Tios, Tieion, Tium
Tios (Tieion) is a Milesian colony at Filyos in Çaycuma, Zonguldak, just east of the mouth of the Filyos River, with harbour, theatre and acropolis remains.
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.
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.
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.