BC 500 – AD 1900
Antiphellos
Habesos · Kaş
Once the harbour of Phellos, it outgrew its parent and became the region’s main landing place. Its theatre facing the sea and the Lion Tomb with its Lycian inscription stand inside today’s Kaş.
- Lycian League votes
- 1
- Location
- 36.1998° N, 29.6406° E
- Today
- Kaş, Antalya
This city in history
The age of twenty-three cities
~168–43 BC · 2nd–1st c. BC
For a century Lycia governs itself and grows rich. Twenty-three voting cities, together with the dozens of towns around them, make up a single political body. The region’s population, its buildings and its trade stand at the height of their history.
The names remain
AD ~395–1300 · AD 13th–14th c.
Turkmen principalities settle the region, and the Teke beylik takes the coast. The ancient cities empty one by one, and their stones are absorbed into village houses. But the names hold on: Telmessos becomes Fethiye, Antiphellos becomes Kaş, Myra becomes Demre, a lord’s manor is raised on the acropolis of Tlos — and the map is still waiting to be read.
On the Lycian Way
The mother city and its harbour
Patara – Phellos – Antiphellos
One of the longest sections, climbing to the ridges by way of Kalkan and Bezirgan. The names of the two cities here declare their relation: above lies **Phellos** — “the stony place” — and below on the coast **Antiphellos**, that is, “opposite Phellos”. In time the harbour outgrew the mother city; the theatre of Antiphellos still looks out to sea, while Phellos is silent on its ridge.
The whole Lycian Way — 12 stages, 540 km