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See also: ancient city on the Pamphylian See also: coast about 12 M
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E. of the mouth of the See also: Eurymedon
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Possessing a See also: good harbour in the days of small craft, it was the most important place in See also: Pamphylia
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See also: Alexander visited and occupied it, - and there the Rhodian
See also: fleet defeated that of See also: Antiochus the See also: Great, and in the succeeding century the Cilician pirates established their chief seat
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An inscription found on the site shows it to have had a considerable Jewish population in early See also: Byzantine times
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The great ruins, among the most notable in See also: Asia Minor, have been re-occupied by some 200 families of Cretan Moslems
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They cover a large promontory, fenced from the mainland by a ditch and See also: wall which has been repaired in See also: medieval times and is singularly perfect
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Within this is a See also: maze of structures out of which rises the See also: colossal ruin of the theatre, built up on See also: arches like a See also: Roman amphitheatre for lack of a convenient See also: hill-
See also: side to be hollowed out in the usual See also: Greek fashion
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The auditorium is little less perfect than that of Aspendus and very nearly as large; but the scena wall has collapsed over stage and See also: proscenium in a cataract of loose blocks
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The arches now afford shelter and stabling for the Cretans
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Besides the theatres, three temples, an aqueduct and a See also: nymphaeum are noticeable
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See C
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Lanckorouski, See also: Les Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, i
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