Phoenix
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.616, 28.092
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Caria in modern-day Turkey
History
Phoenix or Phoinix was a town of ancient Caria, near the mountain of the same name on the southern branch of the Bozburun Peninsula. It may be the same as the town called Phoenice or Phoinike (Φοινίκη) by Stephanus of Byzantium.