Turkey
Antalya Province
Kaş İlçesi

Kınık

Kınık is a town in , the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The reason to visit is the ancient Lycian sites of Xanthos and Letoon, both inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Kınık had a population of 6120 in 2022.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ancient city in Lycia and part of UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Xanthos” and “Xanthus”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nereid Monument and Harpy Tomb.

Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in , close to present-day Fethiye in Mugla Province, . It took the form of a Greek temple on top of a base decorated with sculpted friezes, and is thought to have been built in the early fourth century BC as a tomb for Arbinas, the Xanthian dynast who ruled western under the Achaemenid Empire.

Tomb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is a marble chamber from a pillar tomb that stands in the abandoned city of Xanthos, capital of ancient , a region of southwestern in what is now Turkey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kınık and Çavdır.

Village
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 6,120. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 3,830.

Kınık

Latitude
36.3571° or 36° 21′ 26″ north
Longitude
29.3199° or 29° 19′ 12″ east
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
Open location code
8G8F9849+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 183321152
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6697875
Wiki­data ID
Q464936
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Vietnamese—“Kınık” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ξάνθος”
  • Arabic: “كسانتوس”
  • Armenian: “Կսանֆ (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Կսանֆ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ksantos”
  • Basque: “Xantos”
  • Belarusian: “Ксанф (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Ксанф”
  • Catalan: “Arinna”
  • Catalan: “Xanthos”
  • Catalan: “Xantos”
  • Chinese: “克桑托斯”
  • Chinese: “桑索斯”
  • Croatian: “Ksantos”
  • Czech: “Xanthos”
  • Danish: “Xanthos”
  • Dutch: “Xanthos”
  • Esperanto: “Ksanto”
  • Finnish: “Ksanthos”
  • French: “Xanthe”
  • French: “Xanthos”
  • Galician: “Arinna”
  • Galician: “Arñna”
  • Galician: “Xanthos”
  • Georgian: “ქსანფი”
  • German: “Xanthos”
  • Greek: “Ξάνθος”
  • Hebrew: “קסנתוס”
  • Hindi: “संथोस”
  • Hungarian: “Xanthosz”
  • Italian: “Xanthos”
  • Japanese: “クサントス-レトーン”
  • Japanese: “クサントス”
  • Korean: “상토”
  • Korean: “크산토스”
  • Latin: “Xanthus”
  • Lithuanian: “Ksantas”
  • Maltese: “Xanthos”
  • Maltese: “Xanthus”
  • Mingrelian: “ქსანფი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xanthos”
  • Persian: “زانتوس”
  • Persian: “زانث”
  • Polish: “Ksantos”
  • Portuguese: “Xanthos”
  • Portuguese: “Xanto”
  • Russian: “Долина Ксанфа”
  • Russian: “Ксантос”
  • Russian: “Ксанф”
  • Serbian: “Ksantos”
  • Serbian: “Ксантос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ksantos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Xanthos”
  • Slovenian: “Ksantos”
  • Spanish: “Janto”
  • Swedish: “Xanthos”
  • Thai: “Xanthos”
  • Thai: “คซันโทส”
  • Thai: “ซานทอส”
  • Turkish: “Arnna”
  • Turkish: “Ksanthos”
  • Turkish: “Ksantos”
  • Turkish: “Xanthos”
  • Ukrainian: “Ксанф (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Ксанф”
  • Urdu: “کسانتوس”
  • Vietnamese: “Xanthos”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kınık”. Photo: Nikolas lloyd, CC BY-SA 3.0.