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    to be called by its ancient name, Patara. Antiochus III captured Patara in 196 BC and it became the capital of Lycia. The Lycian League was formally established...
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    elaborations. He is said to have been born in the Anatolian seaport of Patara, Lycia, in Asia Minor to wealthy Christian parents. In one of the earliest...
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    transecting the several-mile-long beach at Patara. The Xanthos Valley was the country called Tŗmmis in dynastic Lycia, from which the people were the Termilae...
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  • Artsakh Patara (Cappadocia), an ancient city in Turkey Patara (Lycia), an ancient city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see Patara, Jalandhar...
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  • Λεών & Παρηγόριος; died c. 260) were two early Christian martyrs at Patara (Lycia) in Anatolia. Their feast day is 18 February. The monks of St Augustine's...
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    important one was the road from Attalea (Antalya) to Apamea. In Lycia the road from Patara towards Laodicea on the Lycus followed the coast. Important cities...
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    hiking trail in southwestern Turkey around part of the coast of ancient Lycia. It is approximately 520 km (320 mi) in length and stretches from Hisarönü...
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  • (Greece), called Arsinoe in the Ptolemaic period Olbia (Egypt) or Arsinoe Patara (Lycia) or Arsinoe Taucheira (Libya) or Arsinoe Arsinoes Chaos, located in...
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  • Haifa, an Amora of the late 3rd/early 4th century AD Eudemus, Bishop of Patara (Lycia), 4th century AD Eudemos, the name of two Catholicoi of the Catholicate...
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    Olympos (Mt. Tahtalı) was the namesake of the town of Olympos in Lycia Ancient ruins in Patara The ruins of the Temple of Apollo, near Side Exterior walls...
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  • as Phoenice or Phoinike (Φοινίκη), was a port of ancient Lycia, a little to the east of Patara; it was scarcely 2 miles (3.2 km) distant from the latter...
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    of ancient cities. He entered Lycia and explored the Xanthus from the mouth at Patara upwards. Nine miles from Patara he discovered the ruins of Xanthus...
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  • Patrae (Ancient Greek: Μνασέας ὁ Πατρεύς) or of Patara, whether that in Lycia or perhaps the Patara in Cappadocia was a Greek historian of the late 3rd...
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  • Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae Passavant, Barony of Pastophorion Patara (Lycia) Patmos Patras Patras, Barony of Patras, Latin Archbishopric of Patras...
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  • account of the Eastern Church says Aedesius and his brother were born in Patara of high-standing pagan parents. The brothers converted while studying in...
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    romanized: Lúkioi) is the name of various peoples who lived, at different times, in Lycia, a geopolitical area in Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor). The Lykians...
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    Babadağ (mountain, Muğla) (category Geography of ancient Lycia)
    18.12 km of the route took 1:12:32. Mount Cragus Cragus (Lycia) Telmissus Pinara Patara (Lycia) List of Ultras of West Asia Butterfly Valley, Fethiye Paragliding...
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  • Gaius Trebonius Proculus Mettius Modestus (category Roman governors of Lycia et Pamphylia)
    memorialized his tenure by erecting a monumental triple-arched gate in Patara, Lycia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) which still stands. His second...
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    (Ancient Greek: Ὄλυμπος, Ólympos; Latin: Olympus) was a city in ancient Lycia. It was situated in a river valley near the coast. Its ruins are located...
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    It is bordered to the Turkish Lakes Region in the north. It was known as Lycia in ancient times. Its name comes from the Teke Tribe, a Turkmen tribe that...
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  • Corydala (category Populated places in ancient Lycia)
    Phaselis to Patara, and makes the distance between these two places 29 Roman miles (43 km; 27 mi) Pliny places Corydalla in the interior of Lycia, and Ptolemy...
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    March 20. Martyrs Amphianus (Apphianus) and his brother Aedesius, of Patara, Lycia (306) Virgin-martyr Theodora of Palestine (Theodosia of Tyre) (308)...
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    Kitanaura (category Populated places in ancient Lycia)
    relatively remote place in Lycia. With a size of 700 m2 the building is over twice the size of the central baths of Patara (315 m2) and the southern baths...
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  • Stadiasmus Patarensis (category Lycia)
    province of Lycia et Pamphylia, giving place names and distances. It was discovered in 1993. It has been dated to the year 46 AD. "Patara excavations...
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    Lycian capital Patara, but this tradition first appeared in the late 6th century. Jerome spoke of Methodius as "bishop of Olympus in Lycia and afterwards...
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    Letoon (category Lycia)
    pre-date the Greek cultural hegemony in Lycia. The sanctuary was connected to Xanthos by a road that led up from Patara to the south. The foundations of the...
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  • Seroiata (category Populated places in ancient Lycia)
    Seroiata was a town of ancient Lycia, between Patara and Phellus. The name is not attested in history, but is derived from epigraphic and other evidence...
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    Finike (redirect from Phoenix (Lycia))
    town of ancient Lycia, near the mountain of the same name. It was a trading port and the main port of Limyra, the capital city of Lycia. Phoenix was said...
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    Xanthos (redirect from Xanthus, Lycia)
    The Greek historian Strabo noted that Xanthos was the largest city in Lycia. The important religious sanctuary of Leto at Letoon, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi)...
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  • Dias (Ancient Greek: Διάς) was a city of ancient Lycia mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium. It has been suggested, with some uncertainty, that a coin...
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