Tlos
Tlos ( Lycian Tlawa ; Heth . Probably Talawa) is an ancient city in Lycia , in southwestern Turkey in the Xanthos Valley.
The settlement site was already settled in the Bronze Age and is probably identical with the place Tlawa or Dalawa mentioned in Hittite sources. The city was one of the six largest places in the Lycian League . Although the city was the seat of a bishopric in Byzantine times, its importance dwindled. The last inglorious high point was the establishment of a winter residence and barracks as a fortress on the old ruins of the Acropolis by Kanlı Ali Ağa, who was considered a robber in the 19th century .
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Gander: The geographic relations of the Lukka countries . Texts of the Hittites, issue 27 (2010). ISBN 978-3-8253-5809-9 . P. 6
- ↑ s. also 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. 343f. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
literature
- Der Neue Pauly 12/1 (2002) Sp. 637.
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Friedrich Hild , Lycia and Pamphylia , Tabula Imperii Byzantini 8th Vienna 2004. ISBN 3-7001-3280-8 . Pp. 885-888.
- Taner Korkut, Tlos. Akdağlar'ın zamacında bir Likza kenti , Istanbul 2015, ISBN 978-975-390-337-0
- Taner Korkut, Tlos. A Lycian City on the Slopes of the Akdağ Mountains, Istanbul 2016 ISBN 978-975-390-351-6
- Wolfgang W. Wurster , Ancient Settlements in Lycia. Preliminary report on a survey company in the summer of 1974, in: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1976, 23–37.
Web links
Commons : Tlos - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Tlos - travel guide
- Akdeniz University website (Turkish)
- Description, pictures and plans of Tlos in Lycia
- More than 300 pictures by Tlos
Coordinates: 36 ° 33 ′ 14 " N , 29 ° 25 ′ 14.8" E