Kapıkırı
Kapıkırı | ||||
|
||||
Basic data | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Province (il) : | Muğla | |||
District ( ilçe ) : | Milas | |||
Coordinates : | 37 ° 30 ' N , 27 ° 32' E | |||
Height : | 50 m | |||
Residents : | 293 (2009) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) 252 | |||
Postal code : | 48 xxx | |||
License plate : | 48 | |||
Structure and administration (status: 2009) | ||||
Mayor : | Mustafa Ali Yıldırım |
Kapıkırı is a village belonging to Milas County in the Turkish province of Muğla .
The place is located on the south- eastern shore of Lake Bafa on the southern slope of the Beşparmak Dağları (Latmos Mountains) and can be reached by a junction from the main road Söke - Milas. Today's village lies in the middle of the ruins of ancient Herakleia on the Latmos . In order not to endanger the ruins, no new buildings may be built. Only 293 people live in Kapıkırı.
Mainly day-trippers come to the village to visit the ruins and take a boat trip on the lake. There are now a few small restaurants and simple pensions. The women of the place offer their handicrafts to tourists.
literature
- Albert Distelrath: Settling and living in a ruin site. A conservation concept for Herakleia am Latmos. Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2011. ISBN 978-605-5607-64-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed March 29, 2010