Fethiye

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Fethiye is a town with 68 285 inhabitants ( as of 2008) in the Gulf of Fethiye. It is located in Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey.

Geography

The city stands on the site of the Lycian Telmessus, which dates back to the 5th century BC. More recent research indicates that this place was earlier, probably already inhabited since the 3rd millennium BC. Telmessus formed, along with the lying about 30 km to the north in the mountains near Uzumlu ruined city Kadyanda the western boundary of the ancient Lycian Cities and Towns. Even at the time of Croesus Lyderkönigs ( mid 6th century BC) Telmessus was famous for its soothsayers throughout the eastern Mediterranean. In Byzantine times the city was called Anastasiopolis, later she was given the name Megri (Greek Makri ).

History

The city was renamed in honor of 1914 died in near Damascus first Turkish military pilot Fethi of Megri in Fethiye. 1924 left the Greek residents under the Treaty of Lausanne, the area and settled in Greece, especially in the village Nea Makri in East Attica.

Fethiye is the main shopping and supply center for the farmers of the fertile environment. From here, there are around the clock bus service to all major cities of the country (including Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Antalya). Dalaman International Airport can be reached in about 45 minutes.

There are several industrial parks and hundreds of small workshops, but hardly any industry.

Tourism is the main industry. Most hotel facilities and the 5 km, the longest beach ( some sand, some gravel) are in Çalış, a suburb of Fethiye.

The famous, located in a cove of white sand beach Oludeniz with the turquoise blue sea is 14 km away from the city center. At the eastern end of the bay surrounded by mountains, the Baba Dagi ( Father Mountain ) rises with its 1969 m from the ocean. Fethiye itself offers only on the beach of Çalış swimming. The season extends over ten months.

The old Turkish and partly still ancient city core, which was, despite numerous, sometimes severe earthquakes still remarkably well preserved, was largely destroyed in the 1957 earthquake. In the middle of the 19th century ( before the devastating earthquake of 1856) was found by the French scholar Charles Texier Hellenistic theater in good condition and described. Above the Eski Cami (Old Mosque), the old town with its narrow winding streets and stairs as well as the typical corner houses still largely preserved. In Fethiye there except a small museum nor a large traditional hammam, which survived the earthquake.

Featured here are the Lycian rock tombs directly above the village in a steep rock face with the famous temple grave of Amyntas. At the ruins of the built in 15th century by Rhodian knights of St John, with the support of the Genoese Johanniterburg is partially well to recognize that remains of a much older building were included. Re worth seeing by the excavation, the ruins of the Hellenistic theater, which was up to the quake in 1856 still quite well preserved. Stone blocks of the theater are rolled in the destruction caused by the earthquake to the about 70 m from the port and can be seen in the shallow pool. The spilled theater was exposed in the second half of the 1990s by archaeologists from the University of Istanbul.

The wedge-shaped Fethiye- plane extends in a northeasterly direction to the about 25 km from Kemer on Eşen Çayı ( ancient name Xanthos ), not to be confused with Kemer in Antalya. In the north, the to 2418 m high Boncuk massif is located. The highest elevation in the vicinity of Fethiye, the Uyluk Tepe, about 45 km east of the city, reached 3024 m. Until the summer (June ) you can see the snow- capped peaks from Calis beach from.

Next to the small industrial harbor are a globetrotters like to overwinter used Marina and several diving centers. From the promenade, which largely corresponds in its course the ancient system, daily and weekly boat trips can be taken.

Scattered located above the core city some Lycian and Roman Lycian sarcophagi in situ. ( One is in a residential area even in the middle of a road Others are involved or used in the walls of the houses -. Tipped on its side - as chicken coops ).