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Location

  • Türkiye, Karaköy
  • geo:36.357109,29.31785

Period or year

  • 4xx~ / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Xanthos, West Church

data access 66533

The West Basilica in Xanthos was built immediately on the western part of the West Agora, one of the main squares of the city. This basilica is an intramural building. It was a three-aisled basilica with a semicircular apse, transept and a narthex, A small apsidal annex bwas added to the south of the apse.

Sources:

  1. Xanthos West Agora II: Alteration and Transformationin the Byzantine Period   By Aytaç Dönmez https://www.academia.edu/41232818/Xanthos_West_Agora_II_Alteration_and_Transformationin_the_Byzantine_Period  
  2. Orçun Erdoğan, Concerning the Transept Basilicas on the Southern Coast of Anatolia in Late Antiquity,   https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/3781/eng

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2020-08-17) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/66533
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Xanthos, West Church. https://vici.org/vici/66533, accessed 2026-11-08.