Xanthos - Antalya

Located on the Fethiye-Kaş highway, in Kınık Town , 46 kilometers away from Fethiye, the city was established on two hills overlooking the plain on the edge of the Xanthos River (Eşen Stream) . The first is the Lycian Acropolis , surrounded by a fortification rising in a rocky rock from the edge of Eşen Stream , and the second is the higher and wider Roman Acropolis in the north . The name of Xanthos, which is described as the administrative center of the Lycian League , is written in the Lycian language in the form of ARNNA . Homer , SarpedonHe tells that the Xathos people under his command participated in the Trojan wars. However, the finds obtained from the excavations revealed the settlement of the city BC. It does not allow taking it before the 8th century.

The city, BC It was surrounded by the Persian Commander Harpagos in 545-546 . Despite their heroic resistance and resistance, the Xanthos inhabitants leave Harpagos an unmanned and devastated city, killing women and children and setting the city on fire. BC Between 475 and 450, Xanthos encounters a fire disaster this time. BC In 334 Alexander the Great took the city. After the death of Alexander Xathos, BC. From 309 onwards, the Egyptian Dynasty Ptolemy , and like many Lycian cities, the King of Syria III. He had to accept the sovereignty of Antiochus . BC Xanthos, the capital of the Lycian League in the 2nd century BC, this time the Roman Brutus in 42 BCdestroyed by the Emperor , but then the Emperor. It was reconstructed with the efforts of Marcus Antony .