The age-old city-limits of Perge was founded on the accident apparent formed bye the river Aksu(Kestros), about 15 km. from the sea. It is 18 km. far from Antalya. ın the age-old age, the river Aksu accustomed the boats to appear actual abutting to Perge. The name of the city-limits originates from “Parga” acceptation “High” during the Luwian/Etruscan era. The a lot of acclaimed Pergean of age-old times is Apollonius who affected the characteristics of an ambit in geometry. It is accepted that the city-limits was aural the boundaries of the country Ahhiyawa as a actual baby adjustment assemblage during the Hittite era. The citizenry of the city, which was accustomed on the south-eastern hillside of the acropolis during aboriginal periods added with those who alternate from the Trojan war, with the boundaries extending down to the flatlands. When Alexander the Great bedeviled the city-limits in 330 B.C., the Persian activity ceased. The temples congenital in the name of Artemis, the arch goddess of the city-limits that was included aural the boundaries of the Roman Empire in the deathwatch of the commotion which took abode in the 1st aeon B.C., and her brother Apollonius, were adapted into a abbey during the aboriginal times of Christianity, Artemis getting articular with Virgin Mary and Apollonius with Jesus Christ.

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To the west of Xanthos-Creek Eşen amid are the charcoal of the age-old city-limits Letoon aural the adjustment Kumluova. The name of the city-limits is “Ladauwa” in the Luwian/Etruscan original, acceptation “worshipping abode of the mother goddess Lada”. History of this angelic abode dates aback to bags of years afore Christ. The Mother Goddess Cult begin everywhere in Anatolia unavoidably took basis in Lycia, too.

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22 km northwest of Antalya, south of the Antalya-Korkuteli motorway on the slope of the 1650 m high Güllük/Solymn mountain, at an altitude of 1050 m, lie the remains of the antique city of Termessos. The area was declared “Güllük/Termessos National Park and Protection Area” due to the best examples of its regional flora, flowers and maquis vegetation, and unique fauna, primarily wild goat. In the Luwi/Etruscan language the word “Terme”, included in the root of the name, means “Pass/Mountain Pass” and “Assa” means “High Fort”, and as such, it was named Termeassa, meaning “Fort City on the Mountain Pass”. The area was also called “Termila”, that is, “Terme Pass” which then became “Dirmil” through a different phonetic pronunciation in today’s Turkish.

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