Ancient Lycian city in southwest Turkey
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Kınık is a town in Lycia, the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The reason to visit is the ancient Lycian sites of Xanthos and Letoon, both inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Kınık had a population of 6120 in 2022.
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Ksantos
Xanthos was the chief city of the Lycian federation, populated from the 8th century BC into the Byzantine era. Features include Lycian tombs, an amphitheatre, and an obelisk with a funerary text in Ancient Greek, Lycian and Milyan / Lycian B. Several treasures were carried off to the British Museum in London so the Nereid Monument, the tomb of Payava, and the original sculptures of the Harpy Tomb here are replicas.
This was a religious site for Xanthos and populated over the same timescale. There's an amphitheatre, a Roman Christian basilica, and ruins of three temples - that of Leto has been partly reconstructed.
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The village is 1 km west of the coast highway D400, which wends and winds from Marmaris and Fethiye to Kalkan 19 km south, and runs on east to Antalya and far beyond.
Read in the guideXanthos is 1 km north of town, and Letoon is 4 km south. The Lycian Way, with its distinctive yellow-black signs, links them all.
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