Fethiye
Fethiye is a district town with a population of about 45,000 (as of 2005) in the province of Mugla on the Turkish Mediterranean coast in the south-west Turkey on the same Gulf of Fethiye.
The city stands on the site of the Lycian Telmessos whose beginnings to the 5th Century BC back. According to recent research, this place earlier, presumably from the 3rd Millennium BC inhabited. Telmessos formed together with the approximately 30 km north in the mountains at Üzümlü ruins lying city “Kadyanda” the western frontier of ancient Lycian Cities and Towns. Even at the time of the legendary Lyderkönigs Kroisos (mid-6th century BC) was Telmessos because of his prophets in the entire eastern Mediterranean region famous. In the Byzantine period was Anastasiopolis the city, and later she received the name Meğri (Greek Makri).
In 1913, the city was celebrating the near Damascus killed the first Turkish military pilots Fethi Bey of Megri in Fethiye renamed.
Fethiye is different from other Turkish coastal cities beneficially by the fact that there are no high-rise buildings in the city, there are still provincial-rural lines. Fethiye is for the farmers of the fertile environment the most important purchasing and supply center. From here there around the clock bus service to all major cities in the country (including Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Antalya). The international airport is Dalaman in about 45 minutes.
There are some commercial areas with hundreds of small workshops, but little industry.
Tourism is the main economic sector. Most hotel facilities, and the 5-km longest beach (some sandy, some gravel) are in Çalış, a suburb of Fethiye.
The alttürkische and sometimes even ancient city core, in spite of numerous, sometimes severe earthquake still surprisingly well preserved, was when the earthquake destroyed most of 1957. In the mid-19th Century (before the devastating earthquake of 1856) was designed by the French scholar Charles Texier the Hellenistic theatre in good condition and taken. Above the mosque “Eski Cami” is the old town with its narrow, winding streets and staircases, and the typical Eckhäusern still largely preserved. In Fethiye, except there is a small museum, a large traditional Hamam, which survived the terrible earthquake.
Worth seeing here are the Lycian tombs directly above the site in a steep rock face with the famous temple tomb of Amyntas. At the ruins of the 15th Century by the Knights of St. John Rhodischen with the support of the Genoese is partly built Johanniterburg good to see that remains of a much older buildings were involved. Re worth seeing are the excavation of the ruins of the Hellenistic theater, which up to the devastating 1856 earthquake have been quite well received. Stone blocks of the theatre are being destroyed by the earthquake to the approximately 70 metres distant port, and rolled in the shallow basins to see. The theater was spilled in the second half of the 1990s, archaeologists from the University of Istanbul uncovered.
The wedge-shaped Fethiye acute-level extends in a north-easterly direction up to the approximately 25 kilometers to the city Kemer on Eşen-Çayı (ancient name: Xantos), not to be confused with Kemer in Antalya. In the north there is the 2418-metre high up Boncuk massif. In the east of Fethiye and directly behind the town rose and the anti Taurus with the Fethiye closest “2000s” mountain Mendos. The summit of the approximately 150 250 2000 m. The highest elevation in the vicinity of Fethiye, Uyluk Tepe, roughly 45 3024 m. Until the summer (June) you can use the snowy summit of Çalış-beach.
Apart from the small industry there is a port of Weltenbummlern like to wintering used Marina and several dive centers. From the promenade, which in its history largely of the old facility, can daily and weekly boat trips undertaken.
Scattered on the core city are still some Lycian and Roman Lycian sarcophagi in situ. (One is in a residential area, even in the middle of a road. Others are in the walls of the houses involved or serve - tilted to the side - as barns).
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