Interesting places in Turkey |
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City in ancient Caria |
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Milas | |||
The ancient Mylasa | |||
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Roman tomb from the 1st century BC (Gümüşkesen) | |||
The ancient Mylasa
was one of the most important cities in the interior of Caria. It
belonged to the Attic League of Seas for a short time in the 5th
century BC and was the seat of the Carian rulers in the 4th century
before Mausolos moved his seat to Halicarnassus, today's Bodrum,
around 360 BC. |
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The Double Axe Gate (Baltali Kapi) | |||
Worth seeing, besides the double-axe
gate, old Turkish houses, craft shops and caravanserais, are two
mosques from the 14th century, one of them with a gable minaret (Orhan
Bey Camii from 1330), a very well preserved Roman tomb from the 1st
century BC, in a style similar to the world wonder of Halicarnassus
(Bodrum) and an archaeological museum with pieces from the
pre-classical, classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman
periods. |
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The town has a famous weekly market, which not only offers tourists a picturesque sight, but is also a source of first-class and inexpensive olive oil from the area. |
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The Atatürk Blv. | |||
Before the city the national road D525, direction Söke/Izmir branches off the D330, Muğla - Bodrum. | |||
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