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Verified places tagged “patara” in Turkey · Mysteria

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Verified places tagged “patara” in Turkey

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🇹🇷 Turkey

🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city

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.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Patara

Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Lycian League 168 BCE–43 CE and Hadrianic) · Lycian → Hellenistic → Roman → Byzantine

Lycian federal port with 1st-century parliament hall, buried Nero lighthouse and harbour silted 1 km inland.