18/04/2020
🏛XANTHOS
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⏳The ancient city of Xanthos famous with the heroic deeds of its people - not once they burned their city so it did not get to the enemy.
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🌄This is one of the oldest city referred to in the "Iliad" of Homer. Xanthos was the residence of the King.
It was one of the most powerful cities of the ancient time and the capital of the Lycians.
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⚔️1st Median King and his army in 545 BC.
⚔️2nd Roman Empire by Brutus in 42 BC. surrounded the city in both situation Lycians figured out that there was no chance of defeat enemies or escape from them, they set fire to their homes and property, killed all children, and women so that they did not become slaves and fought until the last man.
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📜Poem found on a tablet in the Xanthos excavations, translated by Azra Erhat
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🖋We made our houses graves
And our graves are homes to us
Our houses burned down
And our graves were looted
We climbed to the summits
We went deep into the earth
We were drenched in water
They came and got us
They burned and destroyed us
They plundered us
And we,
For the sake of our mothers,
Our women,
And for the sake of our dead,
And we,
In the name of our honor,
And our freedom,
We, the people of this land,
Who sought mass su***de
We left a fire behind us,
Never to die out...
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