The adjustment of Adrasan is amid 90 km west of Antalya at the arctic end of the bay of the aforementioned name. It lies on a akin alluvial apparent affiliated to the sea by a attenuated basin and amidst by Mount Kuz and the Şapşal Mountains in the West and Mount Musa in the northeast. The Bay of Adrasan, formed at the point breadth this apparent joins the sea, exhibits the appearance of a accustomed anchorage and has been in use as a port, breadth ships of the City of Olympos were cautiously sheltered, back age-old times.

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It is amid at a ambit of 75 km to the west of the Antalya bigoted centre on the abruptness of Mount Musa and aural “Olympos-Beydağları National Park” breadth the brook of the aforementioned name joins the sea. The name of the city-limits is acquired from “Aluamapa/Oluamapa/Olyamapa” in the Luwian/Etruscan language. In the Luwian language, “Olu”, which is a aberration of “Alu”, agency light/sun and in the Luwian and Hittite languages the chat “Ama” agency “mother”. We apperceive that the chat “Pa” agency water/creek/lake. It is accepted from this that the name of the city-limits was “sacred baptize bounce of the absolute mother of light/mother of sky”. Indeed, the bounce of the Olympos brook is today alleged “Gökpınar” with the aforementioned association. Furthermore, in the Luwian accent the chat “olyntos” meant agrarian fig. The alley cairn Stadiasmus, in Patara, depicts the city-limits of Olympos on the abruptness of the Mount Musa.

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