Marmara
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.661, 30.478
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Lycia in modern-day Turkey
History
Marmara was a town of ancient Lycia, whose inhabitants put up a ferocious defense to Alexander the Great during his invasion. The name does not appear in history, but the ethnonym is cited by Diodorus Siculus. The town's territory is called Mnarike in the Stadiasmus Patarensis, implying a town name of Mnara.