Turkey
Antalya Province
Kaş İlçesi

Patara

Patara is in 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.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Lycian settlement on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey
  • Also known as: “Arsinoe” and “Patras”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Patara Lighthouse and Patara North gate.

Photo: Chescargot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

City gate
Photo: Chescargot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gelemiş.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 859.

Patara

Latitude
36.261° or 36° 15′ 40″ north
Longitude
29.3163° or 29° 18′ 59″ east
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
8G8F7868+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 183321148
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
11395970
Wiki­data ID
Q233121
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Satellite Map

Discover Patara from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Patara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باتارا”
  • Arabic: “باطرة”
  • Belarusian: “Патара”
  • Bulgarian: “Патара”
  • Catalan: “Pàtara”
  • Chinese: “帕塔剌”
  • Czech: “Patara (město)”
  • Czech: “Patara”
  • Danish: “Patara”
  • Dutch: “Patara”
  • Esperanto: “Patara”
  • French: “Patara”
  • French: “Patare”
  • Galician: “Patara”
  • Georgian: “პატარა”
  • German: “Patara”
  • German: “Pttara”
  • Greek: “Αρσινόη”
  • Greek: “Πάταρα”
  • Greek: “Πάτερα”
  • Greek: “Πάτρατα”
  • Hebrew: “פאטרה”
  • Hungarian: “Patara”
  • Irish: “Patara”
  • Italian: “Patara di Licia”
  • Italian: “Patara”
  • Italian: “Pàtara”
  • Japanese: “パタラ”
  • Javanese: “Patara”
  • Korean: “파타라”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arsinoë”
  • Luxembourgish: “Patara”
  • Marathi: “पतारा”
  • Polish: “Patara”
  • Portuguese: “Patara”
  • Russian: “Патара”
  • Slovak: “Patara”
  • Slovenian: “Patara”
  • Spanish: “Arsinoe”
  • Spanish: “Patara”
  • Spanish: “Patras”
  • Swahili: “Patara (Lisia)”
  • Swahili: “Patara”
  • Swedish: “Patara”
  • Tagalog: “Patara (Lycia)”
  • Tagalog: “Patara”
  • Turkish: “Arsinoe”
  • Turkish: “Patara”
  • Turkish: “Pttara”
  • Ukrainian: “Патара”
  • Western Armenian: “Բաթրա”

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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 “Patara”. Photo: Esginmurat, CC BY-SA 4.0.