Telmessos
Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissus, later Anastasiopolis, then Makri or Macre, was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border, and is sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Amyntas Rock Tombs and Lycian Way.
Amyntas Rock Tombs
Archaeological site
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The Tomb of Amyntas, also known as the Fethiye Tomb, is an ancient Lycian rock-hewn tomb at ancient Telmessos, in Lycia, which was at the time a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire.
Lycian Way
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The Lycian Way is a 540-km, waymarked hiking trail in southwestern Turkey, connecting Fethiye in the west with the vicinity of Antalya in the east along the Lycian coast.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kesikkapı and Cumhuriyet.
Kesikkapı
Suburb
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Kesikkapı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,682.
Cumhuriyet
Suburb
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Cumhuriyet is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,613.
Taşyaka
Suburb
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Taşyaka is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey. Its population is 13,285.
Telmessos
- Type: Abandoned locality
- Description: ancient city of Lycia in modern-day Turkey
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Telmessos” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Telmesos”
- Chinese: “忒耳墨索斯”
- Chinese: “泰爾梅索斯”
- Dutch: “Telmessos”
- French: “Anastasiopolis”
- French: “Telmesse”
- French: “Telmessos”
- French: “Telmessus”
- French: “Telmisse”
- French: “Telmissus”
- German: “Telmessos”
- Greek: “Αναστασιούπολη”
- Greek: “Μάκρη”
- Greek: “Τελμησσός”
- Italian: “Anastasiopoli”
- Italian: “Telmesso”
- Italian: “Telmessos”
- Italian: “Telmisso”
- Japanese: “テルメソス”
- Japanese: “テルメッソス”
- Korean: “텔메소스”
- Portuguese: “Telmessos”
- Russian: “Телмесс”
- Spanish: “Telmeso”
- Turkish: “Telmessos”
- Turkish: “Telmessus”
- Ukrainian: “Телмесс”
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