🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Iassos Agora Temple of Artemis Astias
Archaic to Roman · Ionian, Carian, Hellenistic
Kıyıkışlacık peninsula agora tetrastyle Artemis Astias 150 BCE with Roman mausoleum, Iassic Gulf fishing town.
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Temple of Zeus Lepsynos at Euromos
Hellenistic to Antonine (Mylasan Karia) · Carian Greek (Mylasa sphere, later Roman)
Carian olive-grove Corinthian 6×11 with 16 columns upright to architrave, dedication to Zeus Lepsynos.
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Smyrna Temple of Athena — Bayraklı (Old Smyrna)
Geometric to Archaic (Old Smyrna) · Ionian Greek (Aiolian foundation)
Bayraklı 630 BCE hekatompedon Athena with Aeolic capitals, earliest Ionian temple on Old Smyrna 8th BCE walls.
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Temple of Zeus at Soli-Pompeiopolis
Roman Imperial (Antonine) · Cilician Greek and Roman Pompeiopolis
Pompey's pirate-resettlement port Corinthian 6×12 beside 480-m colonnaded street to harbour.
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Teos — Temple of Dionysus and Ancient City
Archaic to Late Antiquity (1000 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek and Roman / Artists of Dionysus guild
Hermogenes' canonical Dionysus temple 208 BCE — largest Dionysac sanctuary and theatre guild capital.
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Aigai Temple of Athena — Manisa Yunt Dağ
Archaic to Roman · Aiolian Greek, Hellenistic Attalid
Yunt Dağ 400-m Aiolian Athena 300 BCE terrace with 3-storey stoa and agora, 12 Aiolian League wool city.
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Temple of Dionysus at Nysa on the Meander
Hellenistic to Roman (Mithridatic to Hadrianic) · Carian-Lydian Greek under Pergamene and Roman rule
Gorge-spanning double-city Dionysus temple 6×11 with vaulted bridge and library, Strabo's school.
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Amyzon Temple of Artemis — Mazınkale Acropolis
Hellenistic · Carian, Chrysaoric League
450-m Mazınkale Artemis mountain sanctuary with 200+ votives and Chrysaoric League epigraphy wall, 3rd BCE.
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Kyme Temple of Apollo — Aliağa Coastal Dune
Archaic to Roman · Aiolian Greek
Aliağa dune harbour Apollo 700 BCE with 600-m mole and 20k theatre, largest Aiolian port (Hesiod origin).
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Trapezus – Black Sea Harbour of Trabzon, Pontus
Archaic to Ottoman (631 BCE – 1923 CE) · Ionian Greek / Pontic / Roman / Byzantine / Seljuk
Milesian 756 BCE via Sinope — 180 m eastern mole at −2 m off Trabzon Ortahisar where Xenophon wintered 30 days.
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Gritille Höyük — Karababa Lower South Terrace
Halaf to Medieval Islamic (6000 BCE–1300 CE; peak EBA–MBA) · Halaf → Ubaid → EBA Karababa → Neo-Hittite → Medieval
Deep Euphrates salvage sequence — Halaf to Medieval fort (12 m deposit).
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Notion (Notium) — Temple of Apollo at Claros Outpost
Classical to Late Antiquity (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Aeolian Greek (Kolophonian) and Roman
Kolophon harbour city with Doric Apollo temple facing mother city.
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Priene — Temple of Athena Polias and Grid City
Late Classical to Hellenistic (350–133 BCE) with Roman upkeep to 600 CE · Ionian Greek (Milesian) and Hellenistic Attalid
Alexander-dedicated Athena temple 334 BCE by Pytheos and pristine Hippodamian grid city.
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Kaunos Temple of Demeter and Rock Tombs Terrace
Classical to Roman (Carian to Lycian) · Carian, Lycian, Hellenistic Rhodian
Kaunos Dalyan Demeter terrace with 4th BCE altar and 6 Lycian temple-tombs, Carian-Greek border sanctuary.
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Phaselis – Triple Harbour City of Lycia, Kemer
Archaic to Byzantine (690 BCE – 700 CE) · Rhodian Greek / Lycian / Roman / Byzantine
Rhodian 690 BCE triple-harbour isthmus city — north mole 90 m at −1 m and south naval basin 100x75 m at −3 m.
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Sinope (Sinop) – Milesian Harbour Mills of the Black Sea
Archaic Greek to Ottoman (630 BCE – 1922 CE) · Milesian Greek / Paphlagonian / Mithridatic
630 BCE Milesian double harbour on isthmus — north 160 m and south 240 m moles subsided –1 to –4 m on both harbour sides.
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Aizanoi — Zeus Temple and Penkalas Bridge Complex
Roman Imperial (92 CE temple; bridge 250 CE) · Phrygian → Roman Imperial
Kütahya Roman city excavated by Naumann 1930–, best preserved Zeus temple in Anatolia, copy of Diocletian's Price Edict 301 CE.
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Alinda Temple of Apollo — Karpuzlu Hilltop Agora
Hekatomnid to Hellenistic · Hekatomnid Carian, Hellenistic
Karpuzlu 350-m hilltop with 2-column Apollo prostylos and 3-km Hekatomnid walls, Queen Ada's refuge 340 BCE.
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Elaia – Harbour of Pergamon on the Aeolian Coast
Classical to Byzantine (400 BCE – 1200 CE) · Aeolian Greek / Attalid Pergamene / Roman / Byzantine
Attalid royal harbour — 400 m closed basin 26 km from Pergamon, silted 2nd c. CE as Bakırçay delta prograded; magnetic walls at −1 m.
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Labraunda Zeus Temple — Karian Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos
Hekatomnid to Roman (351 BCE – 300 CE) · Hekatomnid Karian to Roman Mylasa
Mountain Zeus sanctuary 680 m with Maussollian androns on sacred way from Milas.
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Uzuncaburç — Diokaisareia Temple of Zeus Olbios
Seleucid to Roman (280 BCE–200 CE) · Hellenistic Olba kingdom, later Roman
Cilicia Tracheia priest-state excavated by Machatschek 1900s and recent Turkish, Olba inscriptions of Teukrid kings.
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Herakleia ad Latmos — Athena Temple on Granos Hill
Hellenistic · Hekatomnid Carian, Hellenistic
Lake Bafa gneiss city with 6.5-km Hellenistic walls and 3rd BCE Athena temple above Endymion grotto.
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Myus Temple of Dionysus — Avşar Kalesi Peninsula
Archaic to Roman · Ionian, Hellenistic, Carian
Avşar Peninsula white marble Dionysus 2nd BCE (Hermogenes) with theatre above Maeander silt gulf, smallest Ionian League city.
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Patara – Silted Harbour of the Lycian League Port
Iron Age Lycian to Byzantine (800 BCE – 700 CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Capital port of Lycia — 64 CE Neronian lighthouse and Hadrian granary beside 400 m harbour now 600 m inland behind dunes.