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Top 6 sights in Dalaman

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   Kaunos

   A Carian city on the estuary near Dalyan, whose rock-cut temple tombs are carved into the cliff above the river and lit at night. The harbour silted up and the marshes brought malaria, which ancient writers blamed for the notoriously unhealthy look of its people.

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   Lake Köyceğiz

   An alluvial lake in Muğla province in Turkey. At 5,200 hectares it is among the largest coastal lakes in the country, and it takes its name from the town of Köyceğiz on its northern shore.

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   Calynda

   An ancient Carian city near the modern Dalaman, mentioned by Herodotus; its ships fought on the Persian side at Salamis, where a Calyndian vessel was rammed by mistake. Only foundations remain.

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   Passanda

   A town of ancient Caria that paid the Delian League a tribute of 3,000 drachmae between 450 and 421 BC, and later fell within the territory of Kaunos. The Stadiasmus places it thirty stadia from that city; the site lies near Gokbel in Ortaca district.

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   Crya

   An ancient city of Lycia and a member of the Delian League. Its exact site is unknown, though it is placed near Taşyaka in Muğla province in Turkey.

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   Lydae

   An ancient Carian or Lycian city in the Rhodian Peraia. Ptolemy called it Hydae and the Stadiasmus, the sailing manual, Clydae.

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