Sura or Soura (Ancient Greek: Σούρα) was a town of ancient Lycia, noted for its oracle of Apollo. Its site is located near Yuva Koyu in modern Asiatic...
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this city Sura (Lycia), a town in ancient Lycia, now in Turkey Sura, Syria, a city in Syria and a former Bishopric (currently a titular see) Sura (river)...
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Lycia and Pamphylia (Latin: Lycia et Pamphylia; Koinē Greek: Λυκία καὶ Παμφυλία, romanized: Lykía kaì Pamphylía) was the name of a province of the Roman...
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(Ancient Greek: Ὄλυμπος, Ólympos; Latin: Olympus) was a city in ancient Lycia. It was situated in a river valley near the coast. Its ruins are located...
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flourishing maritime and commercial city that was for a period the capital of Lycia. The site is located on the Turkish coast near to the village of Gelemiş...
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Xanthos (redirect from Xanthus, Lycia)
The Greek historian Strabo noted that Xanthos was the largest city in Lycia. The important religious sanctuary of Leto at Letoon, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi)...
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village in Azerbaijan Nisa (Boeotia), a city of ancient Boeotia, Greece Nisa (Lycia), an ancient city now in Turkey Nisa (Megaris), a city of ancient Megaris...
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Finike (redirect from Phoenix (Lycia))
town of ancient Lycia, near the mountain of the same name. It was a trading port and the main port of Limyra, the capital city of Lycia. Phoenix was said...
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Comba or Komba (Ancient Greek: τὰ Κὀμβα) was a city in ancient Lycia. Comba lay inland, near Mount Cragus, and the cities Octapolis and Symbra. Its site...
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Dias (Ancient Greek: Διάς) was a city of ancient Lycia mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium. It has been suggested, with some uncertainty, that a coin...
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Greek: Μελόη) was a town in ancient Lycia, located near Cape Kilidonia. When speaking of the bishopric of Meloë in Lycia, Le Quien assigned to it three bishops...
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Mastaura (Ancient Greek: Μάσταυρα) was a town in ancient Lycia and is not to be confused with Mastaura (Caria). It may have been located at present-day...
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Marciana was a town in ancient Lycia, with a bishopric that was a suffragan of that of Myra. The author of the article in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia...
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Myra (category Populated places in ancient Lycia)
and lived under their rule, then the Roman Empire and then the Ottoman in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in...
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Phellus (redirect from Pyrrha (Lycia))
Beyond the main site are five other sarcophagi. In 1842, an expedition to Lycia, led by the English naval officer Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, continued...
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Kaleköy (category Lycia)
fight the pirates who nested in Kekova. The castle contains a small theatre. Kaleköy is a popular yachting destination. Lycia Turkish Riviera v t e v t e...
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Korma (Ancient Greek: Κόρμα) was a town of ancient Lycia, which per the Stadiasmus Patarensis was the destination of a road from Acalissus. Its site is...
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Φοινικοῦς), also known as Phoenice or Phoinike (Φοινίκη), was a port of ancient Lycia, a little to the east of Patara; it was scarcely 2 miles (3.2 km) distant...
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or Melanippion (Μελανίππιον), was a small town on the coast of ancient Lycia, on the western slope of Mount Phoenicus, about 30 stadia from Cape Hieron...
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also Nyssa (Νύσσα) or Nysa (Νύσα) or Neisa (Νείσα), was a town in ancient Lycia near the source of the River Xanthus. Its site is identified in the Digital...
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Apollonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνία) was a city in ancient Lycia. Its ruins are located near Kiliçli (Sıçak), a small village in the Kaş district of Antalya...
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Olbia (Pamphylia) (redirect from Olbia (Lycia))
on the coast of ancient Pamphylia, which some ancient writers place in Lycia. Ptolemy places it between Phaselis and Attaleia. Stephanus of Byzantium...
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Isinda (Turkish: İsinda, Ancient Greek: Ἴσινδα) was a town of ancient Lycia. Isinda was part of a sympoliteia (a treaty for political organization used...
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on the Pyramis Antiphellus Aperlae Aphrodisias of Cilicia Apollonia in Lycia Arabissus Araxa Ariassus Arima Arnabanda Arneae Arsada Arsinoe Artanada...
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Phaselis (category Populated places in ancient Lycia)
Faselis (Turkish: Faselis) was a Greek and Roman city on the coast of ancient Lycia. Its ruins are located north of the modern town Tekirova in the Kemer district...
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known as Siderous; Ancient Greek: Σιδηροῦς) was a port town of ancient Lycia, referenced in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax and the Stadiasmus Maris Magni...
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Telmessos (category Populated places in ancient Lycia)
Αναστασιούπολις), then Makri or Macre (Greek: Μάκρη), was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border, and is sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria...
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Podaleia (Ποδάλεια), was a town of ancient Lycia, mentioned by several ancient authors. Although this town in Lycia appeared in Smith's Dictionary of Greek...
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Balbura or Balboura (Ancient Greek: Βάλβουρα) was a town of ancient Lycia, the site of which is at Çölkayiği. The acropolis hill is about 90 metres above...
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Choma (Ancient Greek: Χῶμα) was a place in the interior of ancient Lycia, according to Pliny on a river Aedesa. Ptolemy places Choma as one of the four...
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