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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.
Geography
The city stands on the site of the Lycian Telmessos whose beginnings to the 5th Century BC back. According to recent […]

Boat
Bodrum was already in antiquity, a center of the boat-building, at least since the time of Mausolos. Ptolemy had here in the 3rd Century BC its warships built. Today in the area built gulets have great similarity to the large vessels for the transportation and the long ships of antiquity for the fight, as they […]

Geographically
Turkey is geographically extends over two continents. Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey’s territory, is about 97% of the total area. The European part is the eastern Thrace and covers about 3% of the country’s surface area (23,623 square kilometres).
The borders of Turkey have a total length of about 9,850 km, of which 7,200 km […]