page_title: List of Lycian place names
hierarchical_section_title: List of Lycian place names
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die römische Brücke bei Limyra in Lykien in der Türkei. Kragstein dritter Bogen Südseite. Der in der Spätantike errichtete Ingenieurbau ist eine der ältesten Segmentbogenbrücken der Welt. Auf einer Länge von 360 m überspannen insgesamt 28 Bögen den Fluss Alakır Çayı, darunter 26 Segmentbögen mit einer durchschnittlichen Überhöhung von 5,3 zu 1. Die Brücke ist heute bis zu den Bogenansätzen von Flussablagerungen verschüttet. English: The Roman Bridge near Limyra, Lycia, Turkey. Corbel stone third arch southside. The late antique structure is one of the oldest segmental arch bridges in the world. The 360 m long bridge crosses on 28 arches the Alakır Çayı, 26 of which being segmental arches with an average span to rise ratio of 5.3 to 1. Today, the structure is buried up to the vaults by river sedimentation. Ελληνικά: η γέφυρα των Λιμύρων στη Λυκία (σημερινή Τουρκία), μια από τις παλαιότερες γέφυρες με καταβιβασμένα τόξα στον κόσμο Español: El Puente romano de Limyra en Licia (Turquía), uno de los puentes de bóvedas escarzanas mas antiguos del mundo Français&#160;: Le Pont romain de Limyra à Lycie (Turquie), un des plus vieux ponts en arc surbaissé dans le monde Italiano: Il Ponte romano di Limira in Licia, Turchia, uno dei più antichi ponti ad arco ribassato del mondo Nederlands: De Romeinse Brug bij Limyra in Lycië in Turkije: een van de oudste bruggen ter wereld met segmentbogen Polski: Most rzymski Limyra w Licji w Turcji, jeden z najstarszych mostów łukiem odcinkowym na świecie Русский: Римский мост Кирк Гёз Кемери около Лимиры в Ликии, Турция. Он один из старейших сегментных арочных мостов мира. Türkçe: Roma döneminden kalma ve Likya kenti olan Limyra yakınlarında bulunan Kırkgöz Kemeri. Dünyadaki en eski segment kemerli köprülerden biri. 中文: 古罗马的利米拉桥, 土耳其, 世界上最古老的坦弧圆拱桥之一
context_page_description: Names of settlements and geomorphic features are known from ancient literary sources. Ptolemy's Geography lists places in Asia Minor and specifically Lycia. Strabo's Geography has a section on Lycia as well, as does Pliny's Natural History. Stephanus of Byzantium includes a large number of Lycian places in Ethnica. Hierocles in Synecdemus lists the cities in the eparchy of Lycia. William Martin Leake's Journal of his own trips through Anatolia, as well as of those of many other travellers, with analyses of sources, mainly Ptolemy, is still a valuable source of information on the locations and appearances of the Lycian sites. In addition, numerous inscriptions in the Lycian language state some place names in their Lycian forms. The topographical information comes from the Aydin thesis, and was developed from Turkish military maps.
  Over a thousand or more years, the borders of the historical territory, called Lycia in English, are not likely to have remained invariant. This list includes places named by some source at some time as "Lycian", and also any settlement with a Lycian language name, even though located in some other city-state.
context_section_description: This article contains a list of Lycian place names that have survived from ancient Lycia in Anatolia. Names of settlements and geomorphic features are known from ancient literary sources. Ptolemy's Geography lists places in Asia Minor and specifically Lycia.  Strabo's Geography has a section on Lycia as well, as does Pliny's Natural History. Stephanus of Byzantium includes a large number of Lycian places in Ethnica. Hierocles in Synecdemus lists the cities in the eparchy of Lycia. William Martin Leake's Journal of his own trips through Anatolia, as well as of those of many other travellers, with analyses of sources, mainly Ptolemy, is still a valuable source of information on the locations and appearances of the Lycian sites. In addition, numerous inscriptions in the Lycian language state some place names in their Lycian forms. The topographical information comes from the Aydin thesis, and was developed from Turkish military maps.
  This article does not address the task of defining Lycia. Over a thousand or more years, the borders of the historical territory, called Lycia in English, are not likely to have remained invariant. This list includes places named by some source at some time as "Lycian", and also any settlement with a Lycian language name, even though located in some other city-state. "Lycia" therefore represents a maximum territory, to which any historical Lycia was never exactly identical.
  Aydin studied 44 out of 78 known ancient settlements. Many more archaeological sites are not identifiable with ancient settlements. Aydin also collected information on 870 Turkish settlements over the same region. The moderns, certainly, populate the region much more densely than the ancients.
  Some of the modern place names are given in Turkish. For the most part, the equivalent English, French or German pronunciations are good approximations, but Turkish has some letters not present in those languages. Ğ or ğ is not pronounced, but lengthens the preceding vowel. For example, dağ, "mountain", is pronounced daa. Substitution of an English G or g is false. Ç or ç is a ch as in child, Ş or ş is an sh as in shore. What appear to be an English C or c is a J as in John, while the J or j is pronounced as the z in azure. The vowels have a short rather than a long pronunciation. As Turkish is an agglutinative language, the endings do not have the same meanings; e.g., daği is not the plural of dağ, which is daĝlar (daalar).
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caption: On the bridge near Limyra
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