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OKTAPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Town in Lycia N of the gulf of Fethiye, 8 km inland from Gocek. As
its name implies, Oktapolis was in Imperial times a synoecism of eight communities,
of which the town at Kizilkaya was the most important. There are in fact more
than eight ancient sites in the neighborhood, most of them very small; one is
identified by an inscription as Hippokome. Among the ruins at Kizilkaya are three
rock-tombs of Lycian type, but no inscription in the Lycian language.
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.
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