Tlos (Extinct city)

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Name (Latin)
Tlos (Extinct city)
Other forms of name
Tlawa (Extinct city)
See Also From tracing topical name
Extinct cities Turkey
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Turkey
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Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q1325973
Library of congress: sh2018000041
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: 2017363603: Korkut, T. Tlos, a Lycian city on the slopes of the Akdağ mountains, 2016.
  • Turkish Archeological News, via www, Jan. 9, 2018(The ancient site of Tlos is situated at the modern village of Yaka, 42 km east of Fethiye, and is a major tourist site located on a strategic hilltop in the upper Xanthus River valley; GPS coordinates: 36.552536, 29.420794)
  • Livius.org, via www, Jan. 9, 2018(Tlos (Greek Tlōs): town in Lycia, modern Düğer in the valley of the Xanthos river; The site of Tlos is situated three kilometers east of the modern village of Düğer and twelve kilometers south of Kemer in the upper Xanthos valley. Tlos, which was called Tlawa in the Lycian language, was already occupied in the Bronze Age and may be identical to the Dalawa mentioned in Hittite texts)
  • Wikipedia, via www, Jan. 9, 2018(Tlos is an ancient ruined Lycian hilltop citadel near the resort town of Kalkan in the Antalya Province of southern Turkey, some 4 kilometres northwest of Saklikent Gorge. Tlos is believed to be one of the most important religious Lycian sites and settlement on the site is said to have begun more than 4,000 years ago)