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Kaş is a city in the Turkish province of Antalya and district capital of the same district Kaş.

The town has about 10,000 residents and is wedged between the foothills of the AkDag Mountains (3080m) in the sea about 180 km southwest of Antalya. Directly off the coast is the small Greek island of Kastellorizo (türk: Meis), while the easternmost point of Greece. Because the city has no sand beach, and up into the 70s, only about a donkey path was reached, it is largely so far from mass tourism, and has remained its picturesque character: The village, with its typical Greek houses is a historical monument.

The site offers good diving opportunities. There are several dive schools. Furthermore paragliding from the surrounding mountains.

İn the bay at the western edge, a marina. The already existing Kai offers except for westerly wind Anlegemöglıchkeıten good. The remaining undeveloped land Gullets used by the entire South Coast as a winter camp.

History
Kaş was from the Lykiern as Habesos or Habesa founded. The first written mention of the name is a bilingual Antiphellos tomb inscription from the 4th Century BC In the Hellenistic period began the ascent of the city. During the Roman domination was Antiphellos even the most important city in the region.

Scientists can not say exactly at the place where the ancient city is located precisely. Witnesses of the Lycian history are everywhere in the village to see. The main attraction is the large stone sarcophagus at the upper end of the main shopping street. A few minutes’ walk away is the theatre with 26 seats from the Hellenistic period. Traces of a fixed theater building has not been found. In addition, there are typical for Lycia carved in stone burial chambers, the construction of a block of wood house imitate.

Today there are ın Kaş eınen more moderate Tourısmus delo v, and many foreigners, especially British, Dutch and German.