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Tlos is an archeological and tourist site to visit in Turkiye ... Read more on Wikipedia


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Attribution: Emma Pease, with CC BY-SA 3.0 license, original file:Lycia-turkey-ancient.jpg , Wikipedia
Ancient Lycian cities



Attribution: Dosseman, with CC BY-SA 4.0 license, original file:Tlos_Acropolis_4190.jpg , Wikipedia
At the top of the hill are the remains of an acropolis and a Lycian fortress, evidenced by the remains of a Lycian wall and a Roman-era wall. The Ottomans built a fortress for the local feudal governor Kanlı Ali Ağa (Bloody Chief Ali) on the foundations of the fortress. Identification of individual parts of the structure was impossible. But may pictures were taken using gps, so you can locate them.



Attribution: Dosseman, with CC BY-SA 4.0 license, original file:Tlos_Big_Roman_Bath_5494.jpg , Wikipedia
One of two adjacent baths. This is the Big one. The Grand Bath overlooked the Xanthos valley to the southeast of the stadion. Double doors connect its three rooms. Windows under 7 arches gave the bath a local alternative name, “Yedi kapı” (Seven gates) and must have provided a splendid effect. The Wikipedia suggests this room could be the "exedra in the baths" donated by Opramoas to Tlos and would date the baths to 100-150 CE. The cold section was in the east, the warm section to its west has been converted into a church in the 12th century. Further west was the hot room, which was converted into a narthex to that church.



Attribution: Dosseman, with CC BY-SA 4.0 license, original file:Tlos_Small_Roman_Bath_4249.jpg , Wikipedia
The smaller of the two baths had two bathrooms and an apodyterium (changing room) at right angles to it from where one could reach the northern Palästra. The barrel vaults of the halls are still preserved. It is across a small road, and pretty big.



Attribution: Dosseman, with CC BY-SA 4.0 license, original file:Tlos_Stadium_4182.jpg , Wikipedia
On this picture one can see part of the stadium was not yet excavated (or waiting restoration). This stadium with a length of 137 meters in Tlos is to the east of the acropolis hill. It has seats on that side. Nine rows of seats are carved in the rock. In the middle of the stadium there is a pool of 72 x 8,3 meters, at a meter of depth. There is a fountain near the pool. Because of its position one can see on some pictures the acropolis hill in its back or across the stadium the agora building and/or the baths to its southeastern side. Some pictures conversely show details of the seats or the building in their back.



Attribution: Dosseman, with CC BY-SA 4.0 license, original file:Tlos_theatre_cavea_5429.jpg , Wikipedia
The seating area from several sides.


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