Ancient Cities in Turkey
Priene
Priene Priene is an ancient Greek city which lies between the popular holiday resorts of Kusadasi and Bodrum in Turkey. It is one of many important ancient sites in the area and is close
Pompeiopolis
Pompeiopolis Pompeiopolis, although the eastern part of the Mediterranean coast of Turkey is abundant in ruins of ancient cities, most of them are not very impressive remains of former settlements
Pitane
Pitane Pitane, of the remains of the Aeolian Greeks in Pitane, little is to be found by the visitor, What did exist in former years has been devastated and plundered
Phaselis
Phaselis Phaselis was founded by the people of Rhodes in the 7th. century BC. For many years, the city which was the most important harbor of the eastern coast of
Pessinus
Pessinus Pessinus, 117 kilometers (73 miles) from Ankara, on the Eskisehir road, and 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Sivrihisar town you will find the Phrygian city of Pessinus. Its contemporary
Perge
Perge Perge was an ancient and important city of Pamphylia, between the rivers Catarrhactes and Cestrus, currently called Aksu Cayı. It is believed that Perge was founded after the Trojan
Pergamon
Pergamon Pergamon is located in West Anatolia, 26 km from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Bakırcay. It was an ancient Greek city
Patara
Patara Patara (Patar in Hittite language, Pttara in Lycian language) is located near the Gelemis village in Antalya province on the southwestern coast of Turkey. Patara, an ancient Lycian harbor city, can
Olba
Olba Uzuncaburç (“Tall-ish Tower”), 32 km (20 miles) north of Silifke near Turkey‘s Mediterranean coast, is the ancient city of Diocaesarea-Olba, famous for its great Temple of Zeus Olbius. On your way into
Nysa
Nysa Nysa, thirty two kilometers east of Aydin , surrounded by orange groves in the hills above the Buyuk Menderes Valley , this ancient site has a theatre, bouleuterion and
