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Juliopolis (Iuliopolis) was a titular see in the province of Bithynia Secunda, suffragan of Nicaea. The city was founded under the Emperor Augustus by a robber chieftain named Cleon, who was a native of the region; previously it had been called Gordoucome. Its ruins are about six miles SSE of Cayirhan, and about three miles north of the Sangarius River (Sakarya) near Ankara. According to ancient

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Fresco in the Church of St. Nicholas at Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know him today as Santa Claus ... MoreThe earliest church of St. Nicholas at Myra was built in the 6th century. The present-day church was constructed

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Hittite Rhyton, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Hittite rhyton at Anatolian Civilizations Museum at Ankara, a container from which fluids were intended to be drunk, or else poured in some ceremony such as libation.

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Guard of Limyra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, followers of Bacchus (Greek Dionysus). The Romans also had a god named Faunus and goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people. In Greek mythology, Faunus' counterpart was Pan, companion of the

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Circular Pilae Stacks of Arykanda, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Rare Circular Roman Pilae Stacks of ArykandaThis architectural technique was the first form of underfloor heating and the same principle is still used today.Arykanda (Arycanda) is an ancient Lycian city, built upon five large terraces ascending a mountain slope, located near the small village of Aykiricay, on

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Gate of Myra Theatre, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Partly excavated semi-circular Roman theatre of Myra. The theater was destroyed in an earthquake in 141, but rebuilt afterwards. Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know him today as Santa Claus.

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Fresco Detail St. Nicholas of Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Saint Nicholas is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a saint and Bishop of Myra in Lycia, part of modern-day Turkey, lived between 270 - 6 December 346. He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and thus became the model for Santa Claus

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Fresco Detail at Church of St. Nicholas at Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in present day Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know him today as Santa Claus.The earliest church of St. Nicholas at Myra was built in the 6th century. The present-day church

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Fresco in the Church of St. Nicholas at Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in present day Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know him today as Santa Claus.The earliest church of St. Nicholas at Myra was built in the 6th century. The present-day church was

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Faces of Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Mysterious face sculptures of Myra: Ancient theater masks carved on hundreds of stone blocks on pebbles at Myra. Each of them represent different faces and expressions. Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know

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Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in Antalya Province of Turkey. According to Strabo Myra was one of the largest towns of the Lycian alliance (168 BC - AD 43). Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know him today as Santa Claus. There are two necropoli of Lycian rock-cut tombs in the

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Faces of Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Mysterious face sculptures of Myra: Ancient theater masks carved on hundreds of stone blocks on pebbles at Myra. Each of them represent different faces and expressions. Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know

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Letoon, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Photo: Ionic column capital at Letoon.The sanctuary of Leto called the Letoon, sometimes Latinized as Letoum, near Xanthos, was one of the most important religious centers of the Lycian region in Anatolia. In Greek mythology Leto is daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. In the Olympian scheme of things, Zeus is the father of her twins,

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Faces of Myra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Mysterious face sculptures of Myra: Ancient theater masks carved on hundreds of stone blocks on pebbles at Myra. Each of them represent different faces and expressions. Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today in Antalya Province of Turkey. Saint Nicholas of Myra lived here. We know

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Guards of Limyra, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Limyra was a Lycian city on the southern coast of Asia Minor, on the Limyrus River, and twenty stadia from the mouth of that river.It is mentioned by Strabo (XIV, 666), Ptolemy (V, 3, 6) and several Latin authors. Nothing, however, is known of its history except that Gaius Caesar, adopted son of Augustus, died there (Velleius

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Arycanda, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Arykanda (Arycanda) is an ancient Lycian city, built upon five large terraces ascending a mountain slope, located near the small village of Aykiriçay, on the Elmalı-Finike road in Antalya province in south western Turkey.Arykanda is known to be one of the old Lycian cities, as its name ends with -anda, indicative of its Anatolian origin

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Sagalassos, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Sagalassos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya, and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta. The ancient ruins of Sagalassos are 7 km from Ağlasun in the province of Burdur, on Mount Akdağ, in the Western Toros mountain range, at an altitude of 1450-1700 metres. In Roman Imperial times, the town was

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Burdur: Museum - war es Tyche?, originally uploaded by Türkei-Exkursion 2009.In the Burdur Museum Burdur was surrounded by Ichayria and Lykonia at east, Pamphylia at South, Lycia and Caria to west and Phrygia and Galatia to North, and was lying in Pisidia area at historical times. Prehistorical past of Burdur extends back to Paleolitik Age. The rock drawings

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Sultanhani Stele, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Sultanhani Monument at Ankara MuseumThe Hittite Monument with hieroglyphic inscription was found in Sultanhani 50 km. far from Kayseri. It is composed of two parts: a base and a stele unearthed during two separate occasions. The base known as "Sultanhani I Insciption" was found during the construction of Kayseri Sivas railway in

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Inside the Roman Tomb, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.

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Elaiussa Sebaste, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Archaeological excavations of the theater and the monumental area by Sapienza University of Rome at Mersin, Turkey. Scavi archeologici del teatro e dell area monumentale. Universita Degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Mersin, Turchia.Elaiussa Sebaste or Elaeousa Sebaste (Ελαιούσα Σεβαστή) was an ancient Roman town located 55 km (

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Ancient Roman Hunting Scene, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Ancient Roman hunting scene. Roman sculpture of the Second Century AD at Anatolian Civilizations Museum at Ankara.

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Sol Invictus at Archaeology Museum of Yalvac, Turkey, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Sol Invictus of Antioch of Pisidia at Archaeology Museum of Yalvac near Konya, Turkey.Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") was the Roman state-supported sun god created by the emperor Aurelian in 274 and continued, overshadowing other Eastern cults in importance, until the abolition of paganism

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Thermae of Antioch in Pisidia, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.The bath lies at the northwest corner of the city and the building did not receive much interest from researchers over the last 150 years. Most of them identified the building as an arched, colossal complex but none of them had anything to say about the function of the building. Seven section of the building have

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Men Ascaenus of Antioch in Pisidia, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com.Men Ascaenus of Antioch in Pisidia at Yalvac Archaeology Museum Men was an ancient god in the western interior parts of Anatolia. The roots of the Men cult may go back to Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. Ancient writers describe Men as a local god of the Phrygians.Lunar symbolism dominates his

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