Edens of Turkey

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. The place was in antiquity as a rich, but on the basis of the situation in the marshy river delta, in which disease pathogens can easily proliferate, as unhealthy. He was known for his widely exported dried figs.

There are still some remnants of the old buildings to see, especially in the rock carved karische graves, from the 4th Century BC come.

The area around Dalyan, Kaunos, the rock tombs and the Köyceğiz Delta is due to its location between the holidays centres Marmaris and Ölüdeniz vielbesuchte now a tourist attraction.