About eight centuries were here until the late Leto, Artemis and Apollo worshipped. The ruins of temples and other buildings, together with the remains of Xanthos since 1988 the World Cultural Heritage (World Heritage, UNESCO). The two sites in Lycia (Asia Minor, Turkey) lie about 35 km southeast of Fethiye.
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Ephesus (Latin Ephesus, Ἔφεσος Greek, Turkish Efes, hittite Apaša verm) was one of the most important and oldest Greek cities of Asia Minor (now Turkey) in antiquity. Both name and initial settlement date from vorgriechischer time.
Ephesus is located approximately 70 km south of Izmir, near the western Turkish coast (Aegean) in the ancient landscape Ionia. In ancient times it was right on the sea. By sedimentation, as well as climatic and seismic changes shifted the coastline over time, to the west, so that today the city is located several miles inland. (more…)
Kaunos
Kaunos was an ancient city in south-eastern countryside Caria in Asia Minor (near the present village Dalyan in Turkey). It was originally on the sea, by shifting the coast now 8 km from the sea in the delta of the river Köycegiz. Kaunos belonged to temporarily Attischen Alliance and the mainland owned by the nearby island of Rhodes. (more…)
Goreme is a place in Cappadocia, in the province of Nevsehir in Turkey. The place was called into the Byzantine period Matiana, then Avcılar until it in the 1980s for tourism in Goreme, originally a term for the area of the nearby cave churches, has been renamed.
The town is the centre of the National Park Goreme, which together with other rock monuments of Cappadocia since 1985 on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. (more…)
The Abant Lake is located 34 km southwest of the Turkish city of Bolu. The lake is located in one of spruce and pine-lined nature park.
The amount ü.Normalnull is 1350 m. The area is 125 hectares, and the lowest point is 18 m. In the water trout live, in the literature as Salmo trutta abanticus mentioned. The lake draws from a number of sources, from 2-3 of streams, and especially of melt water and rainfall.
In the environment of the lake have hotel and restaurant facilities established.