Nisa (Ancient Greek: Νίσα or Νίσσα), also Nyssa (Νύσσα) or Nysa (Νύσα) or Neisa (Νείσα), was a town in ancient Lycia near the source of the River Xanthus...
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Nisa (Lycia), an ancient city now in Turkey Nisa (Megaris), a city of ancient Megaris, Greece Nisa, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran Nisa, Portugal...
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in 1933 Nysa (Cappadocia), an ancient city in Cappadocia Nisa (Lycia), an ancient city in Lycia Nysa (Boeotia), a town of ancient Boeotia Nysa (Euboea)...
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Milyas plateau there were Oenoanda, Tlos, Nisa, Podalia, Termessus, and Trebenna. Other important cities in Lycia include Pednelissus, Ariassus, and Sagalassus;...
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city and bishopric Nyssa (Caria), a Hellenistic city, Asian Turkey Nyssa (Lycia), an ancient city, Asian Turkey Nyssa, Oregon, a city in the United States...
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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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(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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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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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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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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was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, Ukraine and Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia. On 17 February 2002, he was consecrated by Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar...
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Nysa on the Maeander (redirect from Nisa, Turkey)
nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Nysa in Asia (Latin) / Nisa di Asia (Curiate Italian) / Nysæus in Asia (Latin adjective), of the Episcopal...
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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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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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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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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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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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Lissa (Ancient Greek: Λίσσα) was a town of ancient Lycia, mentioned by Ptolemy. Its site is located near Kızılağaç, Anatolia, Turkey. Inscriptions and...
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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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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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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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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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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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ancient Roman and Byzantine city and episcopal see variously placed in Lycia or in neighbouring Pamphylia. At the Second Council of Constantinople (553)...
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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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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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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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Marmara was a town of ancient Lycia, whose inhabitants put up a ferocious defense to Alexander the Great during his invasion. The name does not appear...
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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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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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