Milas
| Milas | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Muğla | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 19 ' N , 27 ° 47' E | |||
| Height : | 2 m | |||
| Residents : | 55,348 (2012) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 252 | |||
| Postal code : | 48 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 48 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2013) | ||||
| Mayor : | Muhammet Tokat ( CHP ) | |||
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| Milas district | ||||
| Residents : | 128.006 (2012) | |||
| Surface: | 2,110 km² | |||
| Population density : | 61 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Mehmet Bahattin Atçı | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Milas ( Mylasa in ancient times ) is a city in Muğla Province (southwestern Turkey ) on the main road from İzmir to Bodrum , 20 km from Bodrum-Milas Airport. Milas is also the name of the district (İlçe).
history
Ancient Mylasa was one of the most important inland cities of Caria . Early, inadequately published finds date from the late Bronze Age, including some fragments of Mycenaean clay vessels , probably from the 15th to the 13th / 12th. Century BC BC Mylasa belonged in the 5th century BC. Briefly joined the Attic League and was the seat of the Carian rulers from the Hecatomnid dynasty in the 4th century , before Mausolos took up his seat around 360 BC. Moved to Halicarnassus , today's Bodrum. In Hellenistic times, Mylasa belonged to different empires one after the other. During the invasion of the Parthians in 40 BC It was badly devastated and was no longer of great importance during the Roman Empire, even if it became the seat of a Christian bishop in late antiquity. Milas was the capital of the Beylik der Mentesche .
Mylasa can possibly be equated with the city of Mutamutašša, which is mentioned several times in Hittite sources.
Attractions
The city has a well-known weekly market, which is not only a picturesque sight for tourists, but is also a source of first-class and inexpensive olive oils (the area is a single olive area). In addition to old Turkish houses, craft shops and caravanserais, two mosques from the 14th century are worth seeing , one of them with a gable minaret (Orhan Bey Camii, 1330), a very well-preserved Roman tomb from the 1st century BC. BC, in the style similar to the world wonder of Halicarnassus (Bodrum) and an archaeological museum with pieces from pre-classical, classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman times.
The building called Uzunyuva ("Long / High Nest") was previously somewhat hidden. The single column of the Corinthian type standing on a high plinth was previously regarded as the remainder of the temple of Zeus Karios. However, Turkish archaeologists became aware of a burial chamber that is located deep under the base structure; the excavations that were then started yielded remarkable findings. The building was probably a forerunner of the Maussolleion of Halicarnassus , the tomb of Mausolus . Due to the magnificent wall paintings and the figurative representations of the sarcophagus found in the burial chamber, it is assumed that Mausolus built the building for his father Hekatomnos .
Worth seeing in the area are Labraunda (Labranda), an old cult site of Zeus Labraundos in the mountains, Euromos located near the road to Selimiye in an olive grove - one of the best preserved temples in the area (half of the 32 Corinthian columns that were once still standing), and on the eastern edge of the village on a volcanic cone Peçinkale, castle of a pre-Ottoman clan that once ruled southwestern Anatolia.
A little further in the direction of Izmir are Lake Bafa and the Latmos Mountains with Herakleia am Latmos and other sights that are not easy to find. To the northeast of the lake, the Hittite rock inscription on Suratkaya is carved into an overhang in the east of the Latmos .
Carpets
The Milas carpets made in the area are named after Milas .
Personalities
- Albert Jean Amateau , rabbi
- Berkin Kamil Arslan , soccer player
literature
- Askidil Akarca: Les monnaies grecques de Mylasa. Adrien-Maisonneuve, Paris 1959.
- George Ewart Bean : Mylasa (Milâs) Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Wolfgang Blümel: The inscriptions of Mylasa ( inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , Vol. 34-35). T 1. Inscriptions of the city. Bonn, Habelt 1987. ISBN 3-7749-2220-9 , T 2. Inscriptions from the area around the city. Bonn, Habelt 1988. ISBN 3-7749-2222-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( memento of October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 13, 2013
- ↑ Jorrit M. Kelder: Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia. In: JP Stronk, MD de Weerd (Ed.): TALANTA. Proceedings of the Dutch Archeological and Historical Society XXXVI-XXXVII (2004-2005). 2006, p. 62 f .; Adnan Diler: Stone Tumuli in Pedasa on the Lelegian Peninsula. Problems of Terminology and Origin. in: Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp (Ed.): Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2016, p. 62. The Mycenaean ceramics should therefore come from SH II and SH III.
- ^ Max Gander: The geographic relations of the Lukka countries . Texts of the Hittites, issue 27 (2010). ISBN 978-3-8253-5809-9 . P. 201f .; John David Hawkins: TAWAGALAWA: The Topography. In: Susanne Heinhold-Krahmer, Elisabeth Rieken (ed.): The "Tawagalawa letter": Complaints about Piyamaradu. A new edition (= Studies on Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology, Vol 13). , De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2019, p. 344 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
- ^ Website of the University of Bonn on their research in Mylasa
