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Olympos - AntalyaOlympos is the second important port city after Phaselis on the southern coast of Antalya. The city takes its name from Tahtalı Mountain, which is one of the western extensions of the Taurus Mountains, 16 kilometers north, with an altitude of 2,375 meters. It is within the borders of Beydağları-Olympos National Park. Although the exact date of its establishment is unknown, Olympos, mentioned in the Lycian Union coins minted in 167-168 BC, is one of the six cities with three voting rights in the Lycian Union.

He represented the east of Lycia in the Union. Most of the surviving ruins of the city are covered with trees and bushes in the forest and belong to the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.

The ruins of Olympos that have survived to the present day are generally located at the mouth and on both banks of a river that flows rapidly into the sea from east to west. In ancient times, the river bed that divided the city into two was enclosed in a canal, both sides of which were used as piers and connected to each other with a bridge. Today, one leg of the bridge remains in place.

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