Sidyma Ancient City

Sidyma Ancient City We offer half-day, full-day tours, private or group tours to Mugla's Sidyma Ancient City. We have tours from Mugla, Fethiye, Marmaris, Izmir, Aydin and Izmir.

To check our tours and their reliable reviews, visit our website: gigiltours.com Sidyma was mentioned in the 1st century BC by Alexander Polyhistor, and later by Pliny the Elder, Stephanus of Byzantium, the Synecdemus, and the Notitiae Episcopatuum. Its extant remains are of the time of the Roman Empire, when it was an unimportant but flourishing city, and no Lycian inscriptions have been discover

ed there and there are no Lycian rock tombs, but its name seems to indicate an earlier origin. Above the present ruins, which lie in a valley, is a wall that may indicate the existence on the hill of a city of which no traces remain. The one coin of Sidyma that has been found is of the type of the Lycian League. It is related that the future Byzantine Emperor Marcian, when still a simple soldier, fell asleep while resting on a hunt near Sidyma, and was found to be sheltered by a large eagle, a presage of his future elevation.

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Sidyma, Mugla/Global
Muğla
48000

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