Listed 1 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "APOLLONIA Ancient city TURKEY" .
APOLLONIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
City in Lycia 12 km E of Kas, not mentioned by the ancient writers
(except that Stephanos Byzantios records an island off the coast of Lycia under
Apollonia) and known chiefly from its inscriptions. There is said to be a coin
of Lycian League type inscribed APO; if this is correct it must be ascribed to
Apollonia, which cannot then have been merely a subordinate member at that time,
as it was later, of a sympolity under Aperlae.
The ruins are on a hill some 90 m above the village, with a small
walled area at the highest point. Otherwise, apart from a poorly preserved theater,
a large vaulted reservoir, and a number of cisterns of the familiar bell shape,
there remain only tombs. Among them are four or five Lycian pillar tombs, none
inscribed, proving the antiquity of the site, and one Lycian rock tomb with a
Greek inscription.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Receive our daily Newsletter with all the latest updates on the Greek Travel industry.
Subscribe now!
