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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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Assos (Άσσος) is an ancient city on the southwest coast of Troas in the Turkish province of Canakkale, the city is now Behramkale.
History
The municipal court, a 234 m high cliffs of dark Trachyte directly on the sea, was already in the Bronze Age. In the 7th Century BC was Assos of Methymna on the […]

Myra is an ancient city in Lycia, now Turkey. The place is now called Demre (formerly Kale). Myra is known as a place of pilgrimage because of the then-born Nicholas of Myra (* 280/286 in Patara in Lycia; † 345/351).
History
Myra was since 6 Century BC, one of the six largest cities in the Lycian Federation. […]