Steven Sklifas - Writer Photographer

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Images in this gallery are from the archaeological sites of the ancient Lydian city of Sardis, modern day Sart, Turkey.

Images in this photo gallery are from the city of Side, in the province of Antalya on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey.

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.

Images in this photo gallery are of the Ancient Lycian city of Tlos in Southern Turkey.

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.