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Lycia is the westernmost section of . Sometimes known as the Turquoise Coast, it has a rugged scenic coastline popular for water activities.
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is a port and beach resort in Lycia, along the coast of Turkey. The town straggles south to run into İçmeler, then the road crosses the mountains to Turunç.

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is a resort town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Türkiye. It's very much on the international tourist circuit, although nowadays somewhat overshadowed by just south.

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is a tourist resort in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, about 40 km southwest of . It's the largest of a string of resort villages, with a total population in 2022 of 49,383.

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is a resort town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. The town and surrounding district had a population of 43,036 in 2020. In tourist literature, "Dalaman" can refer to any of the resorts served by airport, the largest being and west, and east, described on their own pages.

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is a town in Lycia, 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. had a population of 6120 in 2022.

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is a beach resort in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It attracts a mixed crowd of British, German and Russian tourists but isn't on the package-holiday circuit, as its beaches are small and stony, and there are better beaches within a shorter transfer from the airports.

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is a town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, with a population of 27,700 in 2022. It stands over the ruins of ancient Myra, where Saint Nicholas was bishop in the 4th century AD.

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is a town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, with a population of 21,800 in 2022. It has tourist facilities but isn't in the western package brochures, as it's a relatively long transfer from Antalya to a not-very-good beach.

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is in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. In ancient times it was an important city, birthplace of St Nicholas, but was abandoned and lost under sand dunes until rediscovered in the 1980s.

Elmalı is a town in the Lycia region of Mediterranean Turkey. It's 110 km west of and 35 km from the coast, at an altitude of 1100 m in the Taurus Mountains.

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is a small resort town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It's administratively part of province and in 2020 had a population of 5564.

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is a small village in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, next to the ruins of the Lycian / Roman city of . That in turn was named for the nearby mountain now called Tahtalı - the ancients gave the name to some two dozen prominent mountains in Turkey alone.

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is a beach resort in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, famous for its “Blue Lagoon”. It was a tiny place until the 1990s, then Turkish tourism was boosted by direct flights from Europe, and the upgrade of Dalaman Airport put this stretch of coast within a one-hour coach transfer.

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is a "ghost town” in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 10 km south of Fethiye. Remarkably, 975 of these ghosts were substantial enough to deceive the census enumerators of 2022, and they run shops, cafés and guesthouses, and drive too fast around bends knowing they can't die a second time.

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is a small harbour in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, with a population of 3926 in 2022. It's well-developed for tourism but hasn't attracted a mass market, so it remains unspoilt.

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is a town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It's a small resort midway between Dalaman and Fethiye, and at the last count in 2014 its population was 6590.

is a peninsula south of on the coast of Lycia in Turkey. It's also the name of the village midway down. The population of the peninsula is roughly 20,000.

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is a village in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 15 km south of and 30 km south of . It's best known for Butterfly Valley, a scenic canyon.

Lycia

Latitude of center
36.92° or 36° 55′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
29.32° or 29° 19′ 12″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q18927
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Lycia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lisië”
  • Arabic: “ليقيا”
  • Armenian: “Լիկիա”
  • Asturian: “Licia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Likiya”
  • Basque: “Lizia”
  • Basque: “Lykia”
  • Belarusian: “Лікія”
  • Breton: “Likia”
  • Bulgarian: “Ликия”
  • Catalan: “Lícia”
  • Catalan: “Luhha”
  • Catalan: “Lukka”
  • Chinese: “吕喀亚”
  • Chinese: “吕基亚”
  • Chinese: “吕基亚同盟”
  • Chinese: “吕基亚省”
  • Chinese: “吕基亚行省”
  • Chinese: “吕客亚”
  • Chinese: “吕西亚”
  • Croatian: “Licija”
  • Croatian: “Likija”
  • Czech: “Lykie”
  • Czech: “Lýkie”
  • Danish: “Lycia”
  • Danish: “Lycien”
  • Danish: “Lykien”
  • Danish: “Lykierne”
  • Dutch: “Lycie”
  • Dutch: “Lycië”
  • Esperanto: “Likio”
  • Estonian: “Lüükia”
  • Finnish: “Lycia”
  • Finnish: “Lykia”
  • Finnish: “Lyykia”
  • French: “Lycie”
  • Galician: “Licia”
  • Galician: “Luhha”
  • Galician: “Lukka”
  • Georgian: “ლიკია”
  • German: “Lykia”
  • German: “Lykien”
  • Greek: “Λυκία”
  • Hebrew: “ליקיה”
  • Hungarian: “Lükia”
  • Hungarian: “Lukka”
  • Hungarian: “Lycia”
  • Ido: “Likia”
  • Indonesian: “Likia”
  • Indonesian: “Lycia”
  • Indonesian: “Lykia”
  • Irish: “an Licia”
  • Italian: “Licia”
  • Japanese: “リュキア”
  • Japanese: “リュキア属州”
  • Javanese: “Lycia”
  • Javanese: “Lykia”
  • Korean: “뤼키아”
  • Korean: “리키아”
  • Kurdish: “Lîkya”
  • Latin: “Lycia”
  • Latvian: “Līkija”
  • Lithuanian: “Likija”
  • Lithuanian: “Lykija”
  • Macedonian: “Ликија”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lykere”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lykia”
  • Norwegian: “Lykia”
  • Persian: “ليسيا”
  • Persian: “ليكيه”
  • Persian: “لیسیا”
  • Persian: “لیسیه”
  • Persian: “لیقیه”
  • Persian: “لیکیه”
  • Polish: “Licja”
  • Polish: “Likia”
  • Polish: “Lycia”
  • Polish: “Lycja”
  • Portuguese: “Lícia”
  • Portuguese: “Lício”
  • Portuguese: “Lícios”
  • Portuguese: “Lycia”
  • Romanian: “Licia”
  • Romanian: “Lycia”
  • Russian: “Ликия”
  • Serbian: “Ликија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Likija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lycia”
  • Slovak: “Lykia”
  • Slovak: “Lýkia”
  • Slovenian: “Likija”
  • Spanish: “Licia”
  • Spanish: “Lycia”
  • Swedish: “Lycia”
  • Swedish: “Lycien”
  • Swedish: “Lykia”
  • Swedish: “Lykien”
  • Tamil: “லைசியா”
  • Thai: “Lycia”
  • Thai: “ลิเชีย”
  • Thai: “สหพันธ์ลิเชีย”
  • Turkish: “Likya Uygarlığı”
  • Turkish: “Likya”
  • Turkish: “Likyalilar”
  • Turkish: “Lykia”
  • Ukrainian: “Лікія”
  • Urdu: “لیکیا”
  • Uzbek: “Likiya”
  • Venetian: “Lìcia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lycia (rehiyon)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lycia”
  • “Lycia”

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