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Settled down on skirt of Cebel-i Reis mountain elevating at the entrance of Dim valley on Taurus Mountains. About 25 km. away from Alanya. The nearest village is Gözüküçük. In the border of the region known as Mountainous Kilikya Region in antique age. Strabon mentions the town as having harbour and established on a hill in chest shape. The important ruins of the town remaining at present are observatory towers, Caracalla excedraa, odeon or theatre, Zeus Megistos temple, Apollon temple, Caesar temple, agora, bath and necropolis. Non-existence of ruins from Hellenistic times is due to the fact that the town was under control of pirates during then and therefore improvement was not made sufficiently. Inscription dating the town from B.C. 6th century in Fenike language and found in the town is exhibited in the Alanya museum. Other important art discovered in the town is "diploma of a Roman soldier" being exhibited in the Alanya Museum., which gives information about military aspect of the town. The ruins are dated from Roman period.

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