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  • Türkiye, Çataloluk
  • geo:36.318829,29.67342

Period or year

  • -1400~ / unknown

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  • city
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Gendive, Çataloluk (Xakb - Kandyba)

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Ancient Hittite: Hinduwa, Kandyba or Candyba in Lycia, next to the modern Turkish village of  Çataloluk. Greek nKandyba  took its name from the Candybus, son of Deucalion, according to Greek tradition.

See:

  1. George E. Bean, Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide, London John Murray Publishers Ltd 1989, p. 107-108  https://archive.org/details/lycianturkeyarch0000bean
  2. Trevor Bryce, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire, Routledge, 2009, p.312
  3. Lycian Monuments  https://www.lycianmonuments.com/kandyba/

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-04-06) , last updated by p. jeffries (2026-10-25), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/26424
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta and Jeffries, P., Gendive, Çataloluk (Xakb - Kandyba). https://vici.org/vici/26424, accessed 2026-11-02.