Geyre Attractions
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Western Anatolia (Mentese highland)
Village: Geyre (3km/2mi northwest)
The ruins of ancient Aphrodisias lie 82km/51mi southwest of Denizli, where the heavily wooded southern foothills of Ak Dag border on the broad valley of the Kekre Çayi. The site itself is located high in a side valley of the upper Dandalas Çayi (Vandalas Çayi), a tributary of the Büyük Menderes Nehri (Great Maeander River).
History
Chalcolithic finds show the area to have been settled in the fourth millennium B.C.; early Bronze Age pottery also suggests there was an Assyrian trading colony here during the Hittite period.
Village: Geyre (3km/2mi northwest)
The ruins of ancient Aphrodisias lie 82km/51mi southwest of Denizli, where the heavily wooded southern foothills of Ak Dag border on the broad valley of the Kekre Çayi. The site itself is located high in a side valley of the upper Dandalas Çayi (Vandalas Çayi), a tributary of the Büyük Menderes Nehri (Great Maeander River).
History
Chalcolithic finds show the area to have been settled in the fourth millennium B.C.; early Bronze Age pottery also suggests there was an Assyrian trading colony here during the Hittite period.
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Ruins
The ruins of Aphrodisias include a Roman agora with Doric and Ionic porticos, and a 6th C Byzantine Martyrs' Church. Some of the items retrieved at the site are in the museum.
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Theater
The Theater at Aphrodisias dates from the late Hellenistic period and could at one time seat 10,000 spectators.