FETHIYE

Fethiye is a city and a district of Mugla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey with 45,000 population. It is one of Turkey's well-known tourist centres and is especially prized during the summer.

Fethiye Museum, very rich in ancient and more recent artifacts, displays and testifies the successive chain of civilizations that inhabited the region, starting with ancient Lycia.

The region of Lycia has been inhabited by human groups since prehistoric times. The eponymous inhabitants of Lycia, the Lycians, spoke an Indo-European language, belonging to its Anatolian branch.

The area was ruled by Greek colonists who inhabited the region until modern times, after being conquered by Turks. The last Greeks were displaced following the Greco-Turkish War in the early 20th century.

It is bounded by Caria to the west and north west, Pamphylia to the east, and Pisidia to the north east. Turkey's first waymarked long-distance footpath, the Lycian Way, follows part of the coast of the region.

The principal cities of ancient Lycia were Xanthos, Patara, Myra and Phaselis.
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