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Surroundings:

Küçük Tav ş an Adası, the church exteriorChurch of Küçük Tavşan, naveChurch of Küçük Tavşan, Presbytery mosaicsChurch of Küçük Tavşan, Presbytery mosaics

Location:

  • Türkiye, Göltürkbükü
  • geo:37.114521,27.36908
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -11xx~ / -3xx

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Plini in his Historia Naturalis records the name Memdassa1.  Madnasa was a Carian town situated on a hill above the Turkbuku Cove; and Asagi Lake. It was an Early Iron Age hill-top settlement similar to those in Pedasa and Termera.

  1. Bean, G. E., et al. “The Halicarnassus Peninsula.” The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 50, 1955, pp. 85–171. JSTOR,   p.121 - 122  and 155    https://www.jstor.org/stable/30104444

  2. George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, p.124   http://ignca.gov.in/Asi_data/62701.pdf
  3. Madnasa http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=5294&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web
  4. Pliny. Naturalis Historia Naturalis V. 107   https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/5*.html

References

  1. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/5*.html


Nearby

Göl - Türkbükü (Karyanda Neapolis ?) (1 km)

Ancient Carian city under modern Turkish kurort of Turkbuku.

Gundogan, Peynir Çiçeği Cave (2 km)

Peynir Çiçeği Mağarası. Peynirçiçeği Mağarası.


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