DESTINATION AEGEAN TURKEY

The Aegean Region (Turkish: Akdeniz Bolgesi) is one of the seven geographical regions of Turkey. It borders the Aegean Region to the west, the Aegean Sea to the south, the Southeastern Anatolia Region to the south, and the Central Anatolia Region to the north.

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AEGEAN TURKEY: Bodrum, Cesme, Ephesus, Fethiye, Halicarnassus, Izmir, Kusadasi, Marmaris, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Miletus, Oludeniz, Pergamon, Temple of Artemis,

DISCOVER BODRUM The first recorded settlers in Bodrum region were the Carians and the harbor area was colonized by Dorian Greeks as of the 7th century BC. The city later fell under Persian rule. Under the Persians, it was the capital city of the satrapy of Caria. Its strategic location ensured that the city enjoyed considerable autonomy ...

DISCOVER CESME Cesme is a popular holiday resort and the district center, where two thirds of the district population is concentrated, is located 85 km. west of I.zmir, the largest metropolitan center in Turkey's Aegean Region, the road connection between the two cities being assured by a recently-built six-lane highway ...

DISCOVER EPHESUS Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era. In the Roman period, it was for many years the second largest city of the Roman Empire; ranking behind Rome, the empire's capital ...

DISCOVER FETHIYE Modern Fethiye is located on the site of the ancient city of Telmessos, the ruins of which can be seen in the city, e.g. the Hellenistic theatre by the main quay. Telmessos was the most important city of Lycia, with a recorded history starting in the 5th century BC. The oracle of Telmessos, devoted to Apollo, had great impact on the course of ancient history ...

DISCOVER HALICARNASSUS Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city at the site of modern Bodrum in Turkey. It was located in southwest Caria on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf. The city was famous for the tomb of Mausolus, the origin of the word mausoleum, built between 353 BC and 350 BC, and one of the seven wonders of the ancient world ...

DISCOVER IZMIR Izmir has almost 3,500 years of recorded urban history and possibly even longer as an advanced human settlement. Lying on an advantageous location at the head of a gulf running down in a deep indentation midway on the western Anatolian coast, the city has been one of the principal mercantile cities of the Mediterranean Sea for much of its history ...

DISCOVER KUSADASI The Kusadasi area has been a centre of art and culture since the earliest times and has been settled by many civilizations since being founded by the Leleges people in 3000 BC. Later settlers include the Aeolians in the 11th century BC and Ionians in the 9th century. Originally seamen and traders the Ionians built a number of settlements on this coast including Neopolis ...

DISCOVER MARMARIS Marmaris' main source of income is tourism. Little is left of the sleepy fishing village that Marmaris was just a few decades ago after a construction boom in the 1980s. Marmaris still retains its charm due to its exceptional location between two intersecting mountains by the sea. It is also a centre for sailing and diving, possessing two major and several smaller marinas ...

MAUSOLEUM OF HALICARNASSUS The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, or Tomb of Mausolus, was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene. The Mausoleum stood approximately 45 m ...

DISCOVER MILETUS Miletus was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia (in what is now Aydin Province, Turkey), near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria. Before the Persian invasion Miletus was considered the greatest and wealthiest of Greek cities. In antiquity the city possessed a harbor at the southern entry of a large bay ...

DISCOVER OLUDENIZ Oludeniz remains one of the most photographed beaches on the Mediterranean. It has a secluded sandy bay at the mouth of Oludeniz, on a blue lagoon. The lagoon is a national nature reserve and building is strictly prohibited. Oludeniz is famous for its shades of turquoise and aquamarine, and is frequently rated among the top 5 beaches in the world ...

DISCOVER PERGAMON Pergamon, or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, today located 16 miles from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus, that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period. Pergamon was cited in the book of Revelation as one of the seven churches of Asia ...

TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS The Temple of Artemis (or Artemision), also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to a goddess Greeks identified as Artemis and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was situated at Ephesus, and was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction in 401 ...

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