All about Fethiye, Turkey (1)
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Fethiye

Fethiye, known as Telmessos in the antique period, is the most important city of LYCIA - one of the oldest Anatolian Civilisations - at the western borderline with CARIA. Despite lack of information regarding its establishment, it is stated in the history of the city reaches far back to 5th century BC. A Lycian legend explains the source of the name Telmessos as follows: "God Apollon falls in love..." (more)

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: "Here is a map of Turkey with all its regions. The white places on the map, are our neighbours: Greece at west, Bulgaria at NorthWest, (old) Russia at North and NorthEast, Iran at SouthEast, Syria and Iraq at south. The white islands on the western part of the map are all Greek Islands (even the smallest ones) although they're a mile or a few miles away from the Turkish coast, and miles and miles away from Greece. They can be seen obviously even by naked eye from Turkey."