Termessus
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.982, 30.464
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Pamphylia in modern-day Turkey
History
Termessos, also known as Termessos Major, was a Pisidian city built at an altitude of about 1000 metres at the south-west side of Solymos Mountain in the Taurus Mountains. It lies 17 kilometres to the north-west of Antalya. It lies on a natural platform on the slopes of Güllük Dağı, which itself rises to 1,665 metres.