Kayaköy

Local nameKayaköy Harabeleri
LocationMuğla, Türkiye

Kayaköy, anciently known in Greek as Karmilissos, shortened to Lebessos and pronounced in Modern Greek as Livissi, is presently a village 8 km south of Fethiye in southwestern Turkey in the old Lycia province. From Ancient Greek the town name shifted to Koine Greek by the Roman period, evolved into Byzantine Greek in the Middle Ages, and finally became the Modern Greek name still used by its townspeople before their final evacuation in 1923.

In late antiquity the inhabitants of the region had become Christian and, following the East-West Schism with the Catholic Church in 1054 AD, they came to be called Greek Orthodox Christian. These Greek-speaking Christian subjects, and their Turkish-speaking Ottoman rulers, lived in relative harmony from the end of the turbulent Ottoman conquest of the region in the 14th century until the early 20th century.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayaköy

Address 48300, Turkey

Coordinates 36°34'27.526" N 29°5'25.617" E

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