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Southern Aegean

Southern Aegean Region is on the southwest coast of . It has a 2000 year tradition of tourism, and most international visitors are heading for party-town Bodrum.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Denizli and Bodrum.

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is a city in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey, which most visitors simply transit to reach Pamukkale 20 km north. It's a typical modern Turkish city, far from picturesque, but does have enough sights of its own if your schedule allows.

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is a tourist resort on the Southern Aegean coast of Turkey. It's a budget, mass-market destination with facilities to match, and in 2020 the metropolis had a population of almost 182,000.

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is a village in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey, famous for its hot springs, Roman spa town of Hierapolis, and white terraced pools: the village name means "cotton castle".

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Muğla and Aphrodisias.

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is a city in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey, with a population of about 120,000 in 2022, including the outlying villages. Yet for all its size, it has a remarkably well-preserved and scenic old town centre.

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is the ruin of a Roman city in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its wealth of remains. Geyre is the small modern village next to it, deriving its name from Caria an early Grecian state absorbed by the Roman Empire.

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is a resort town on the Southern Aegean coast of Turkey. It's the most northerly of the resorts served by Milas-Bodrum Airport so in tourist brochures it's often described as "Bodrum region", and attracts a budget mass-market.

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is the main town of the or Reşadiye Peninsula, a scenic 70-km neck of land that forms the boundary between the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.

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is a resort in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey. It's on the peninsula 18 km northwest of , and marketed to tourists as "Bodrum region" along with the neighbouring villages of Gündoğan and Göltürkbükü.

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is a resort in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey. It's on the west coast of the peninsula beyond , and is the largest of the outlying resorts associated with that city.

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is a beach resort in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey, at the head of the Gulf of Gökova. Gökova is a larger, older village 2 km inland, on the site of the ancient city of Idyma.

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is a small harbour village in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey. It's sandwiched between the larger resort strips of Turgutreis and Yalıkavak but there's a prohibition on developing the one-km tract separating them, and doesn't itself have large resort hotels and has retained more of its character as an old fishing port.

Southern Aegean

Latitude of center
37.02° or 37° 1′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
28.22° or 28° 13′ 12″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q14234658
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In Other Languages

“Southern Aegean” goes by many names.
  • Italian: “Regione dell’Egeo meridionale”

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Southern Aegean”. Photo: Pedro Lassouras, CC BY-SA 3.0.