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Kayaköy

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Kayaköy by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com

The ghost town, now preserved as a museum village, consists of hundreds of rundown but still mostly intact Greek-style houses and churches which cover a small mountainside, ancient Anticragus, nearby Fethiye and Ölüdeniz. It was built in the 1700s on the site of the ancient city of Carmylessus mentioned by Strabo.

Kayaköy
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