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  • Turkey Highlights
    Turkey Highlights
    229 images
  • Alabanda - Turkey
    Alabanda - Turkey
    119 images
    Images in this gallery are from Alabanda, an ancient city of Caria, Anatolia, Turkey. The city was also known as Antiochia of the Chrysaorians and is near Doganyurt, Cine, Aydın Province, southwestern Turkey.
  • Alinda - Turkey
    Alinda - Turkey
    107 images
  • Antalya - Turkey
    Antalya - Turkey
    48 images
    Images in this gallery are from Antalya, a modern, vibrant city with the delightful charms of the old town Kaleici in its centre. Antalya forms part of the Turkish Riviera and is on the Mediterranean coast of south-western Turkey.
  • Aphrodisias - Turkey
    Aphrodisias - Turkey
    112 images
    Images in this photo gallery are from the archaeological site of Aphrodisias, located near the modern village of Geyre in the Southwestern Turkish province of Aydin.
  • Arykanda - Turkey
    Arykanda - Turkey
    170 images
    Images in this gallery are of the vast and archaeological rich ancient city of Arykanda, a magnificently sited Hellenistic Lycian harmoniously set in a magnificent natural position in the province of Antalya on the southern (Turquoise) coast of Turkey.
  • Aspendos - Turkey
    Aspendos - Turkey
    36 images
    Images in this gallery are from the ancient Greco-Roman city of Aspendos, in the Antalya province on the Mediterranean coast of South-Western Turkey. Ancient Greek colonists from the Peloponnese city of Argos founded the ancient city of Aspendos in 1000 BC.
  • Bodrum - Turkey
    Bodrum - Turkey
    165 images
    Images in this gallery are from the cosmopolitan, vibrant and historical city of Bodrum. It is Turkey's leading seaside holiday destination and one of the South Aegean's most attractive resorts. Ancient Greek poet Homer described it ‘the land of eternal blue'. Bodrum is in the south-western Aegean Region of Turkey.
  • Cappadocia - Turkey
    Cappadocia - Turkey
    127 images
    Images in this photo gallery are from Cappadocia, a unique historical region in landlocked Central Anatolia, in the Nevsehir Province of Turkey. UNESCO lists the Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia as a World Heritage site.
  • Claros - Turkey
    Claros - Turkey
    81 images
  • Didyma - Turkey
    Didyma - Turkey
    65 images
    Images in this gallery are from the Sanctuary of Didyma, which is one of the most evocative classical Ancient Greek sites in Turkey. On the Aegean west coast of Turkey, the sanctuary includes the colossal ruins of the Hellenistic Temple of Apollo, which is the 3rd largest Greek temple ever built. The sanctuary’s oracle was famous with pilgrims throughout ancient world and was second in importance only to Delphi.
  • Ephesus - Turkey
    Ephesus - Turkey
    196 images
    Images in this gallery are from Ephesus, one of the great Greek cities of Asia Minor and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ionian Greeks originally found Ephesus around 1000 BCE on the mouth of the now silted Kayster river on the Aegean coast and western Anatolia region of Turkey.
  • Euromos - Turkey
    Euromos - Turkey
    103 images
    Images in this gallery are of the magnificent Temple of Zeus, which is the only visible remnant from the ancient city of Euromos. Euromos is in the south-western Aegean Region of Turkey, approximately 45 minutes’ drive from Bodrum.
  • Fethiye - Turkey
    Fethiye - Turkey
    99 images
    Images in this gallery are from Fethiye, the laid-back and popular tourist coastal town that occupies the site of the ancient Lycian city of Telmessos. At the head of a pretty island-strewn bay, it has an impressive ancient theatre and Lycian sarcophagi and Lycian rock tombs. Fethiye is on the stretch of the Mediterranean known as the Turquoise Coast in the Mugla Province in the south Aegean region of Turkey.
  • Hierapolis - Turkey
    Hierapolis - Turkey
    145 images
    Images in this gallery are from the ancient city of Hierapolis above the Pamukkale plateau in the Denizli Province in south-western Turkey. Hierapolis and Pamukkale are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • Iassos - Turkey
    Iassos - Turkey
    87 images
  • Istanbul - Turkey
    Istanbul - Turkey
    46 images
    Images in this gallery are from the Istanbul (also known as Byzantium and Constantinople), the large bustling historic capital of the republic of Turkey. The city was originally founded by Greek settlers in the 7th century BC and was named Byzantium. In 330AD, Roman emperor Constantine I elected the city as the new capital of the Roman Empire and it was known as the “city of Constantine”, Constantinople. The city was the keeper of classical culture and a stronghold of Christianity for a long while until continuous assaults from various aggressors diminished its power. It fell in the 15th century to the Ottoman Turk Empire.
  • Izmir - Turkey
    Izmir - Turkey
    17 images
    Images in this gallery are from Izmir, on the Aegean coast and the third largest city in Turkey. Known as Smyrna in antiquity, it was founded by the Ancient Greeks, taken over by the Romans before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.
  • Kaunos - Turkey
    Kaunos - Turkey
    129 images
    Images in this gallery are of the ancient site of Kaunos (or Caunos), situated a few kilometres west of the tourist town of Dalyan. Kaunos and Dalyan are along the picturesque winding Dalyan River in the Mugla Province between Marmaris and Fethiye, on the south-western coast of Turkey. 
  • Kusadasi - Turkey
    Kusadasi - Turkey
    27 images
    Images in this gallery are of Kusadasi, a coastal resort town in the Aydin province of Aegean west coast Turkey. The town's name, meaning 'Bird Island', because of the island being a much-frequented resting place of birds during seasonal migrations. Kusadasi has become a popular holiday resort and its normal population of 50000 swells into the hundreds of thousands in the summer because of the many tourists disembarking here from the many daily cruise ships calling port here. The city's popularity is because of its excellent shopping opportunities and to its proximity to the famous ancient Greco-Roman sights of Ephesus, Priene, Didyma and Miletus.
  • Labranda - Turkey
    Labranda - Turkey
    106 images
  • Lagina - Turkey
    Lagina - Turkey
    117 images
  • Laodikeia - Turkey
    Laodikeia - Turkey
    134 images
  • Letoon - Turkey
    Letoon - Turkey
    88 images
    Images in this gallery are from Letoon, the ancient Lycian pilgrimage and sacred cult centre dedicated to the Greek Goddess Leto and her twin children, the God Apollo and Goddess Artemis.
  • Magnesia ad Maeandrum - Turkey
    Magnesia ad Maeandrum - Turkey
    125 images
  • Marmaris - Turkey
    Marmaris - Turkey
    7 images
    Images in this gallery are from Marmaris, a Mediterranean resort town on the stretch of the Mediterranean known as the Turquoise Coast. Marmaris sits in a valley between pine-forested mountains and clear waters, which are popular sailing and diving destinations.
  • Metropolis - Turkey
    Metropolis - Turkey
    86 images
  • Miletus - Turkey
    Miletus - Turkey
    53 images
    Images in this gallery are from the ancient Greek city of Miletus, which is in western Anatolia on the Aegean coast of Turkey. In ancient times, Miletus was on the coast at the mouth of the River Meander and theatre faced one of the city harbours prior to it silting up. The ruins of Miletus are now located 8 kilometres inland.
  • Myra - Turkey
    Myra - Turkey
    69 images
    Images in this gallery are from the ancient Greek and Lycian town of Myra, in the Antalya Province along the south-western (Turquoise) coast of Turkey. Myra was an ancient Greek town in Lycia where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today, in present-day Antalya Province of Turkey.
  • Nysa - Turkey
    Nysa - Turkey
    169 images
  • Patara - Turkey
    Patara - Turkey
    120 images
    Images in this gallery are from the extensive ancient Lycian seaport city of Patara, which was one of the six principal cities of Lycia (Lycian League).
  • Pergamum - Acropolis - Turkey
    Pergamum - Acropolis - Turkey
    127 images
  • Pergamum - Asclepium - Turkey
    Pergamum - Asclepium - Turkey
    137 images
  • Perge - Turkey
    Perge - Turkey
    101 images
    Images in this gallery are from the ancient city of Perge, situated 15 kilometres east of the city of Antalya in the Antalya province on the Mediterranean coast of South-Western Turkey.
  • Phaselis - Turkey
    Phaselis - Turkey
    76 images
    Images in this gallery are from the ancient Lycian city of Phaselis, which is delightfully set on a small maritime pine forested promontory that extends into the waters of the Turkish Turquoise coast. Phaselis is in the Antalya Province, Southern Turkey. 
  • Pinara - Turkey
    Pinara - Turkey
    154 images
    Images in this gallery are from the evocative and secluded ancient Lycian city of Pinara, which is on a pine forested mountain foothill 2 kilometres above the village of Minare, in the Fethiye district of Mugla Province, south-western Turkey.
  • Priene - Turkey
    Priene - Turkey
    55 images
    Images in this gallery are of the small Ionian ancient Greek city of Priene which is magnificently and delightfully set among pine trees on the lower slopes of Mount Mykale at the mouth of the Maeander plain on the west coast of Turkey.
  • Sagalassos - Turkey
    Sagalassos - Turkey
    95 images
    Images in this gallery are from the archaeological site of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Sagalassos in the Burdur Province in south-western Turkey.
  • Sardis - Turkey
    Sardis - Turkey
    179 images
    Images in this gallery are from the archaeological sites of the ancient Lydian city of Sardis, modern day Sart, Turkey.
  • Side - Turkey
    Side - Turkey
    184 images
    Images in this photo gallery are from the city of Side, in the province of Antalya on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
  • Stratonikeia - Turkey
    Stratonikeia - Turkey
    135 images
  • Teos - Turkey
    Teos - Turkey
    78 images
  • Termessos - Turkey
    Termessos - Turkey
    119 images
    Images in this gallery are from the archaeological site of the ancient Pisidian city of Termessos, located high at an altitude of 1000 metres on the summit of the Solymos mountain, approximately 30 kilometres northwest of the city of Antalya.
  • Tlos - Turkey
    Tlos - Turkey
    99 images
    Images in this photo gallery are of the Ancient Lycian city of Tlos in Southern Turkey.
  • Tralleis - Aydin - Turkey
    Tralleis - Aydin - Turkey
    57 images
  • Tripolis ad Maeandrum - Turkey
    Tripolis ad Maeandrum - Turkey
    78 images
  • Xanthos - Turkey
    Xanthos - Turkey
    135 images
    Images in this photo gallery are from Xanthos, the once great ancient centre of the Lycian Federation, set in the Antalya Province in the south Aegean region of Turkey.