Myra
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Myra
- Ancient site.native_name
- Μύρα
- Ancient site.image
- Myra theatre.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- The theater of Myra, with the rock-cut tombs of the ancient Lycian necropolis on the cliff in the background.
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.map_size
- 270
- Ancient site.location
- Demre, Antalya Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Lycia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Byzantine Empire
- Located in
- Demre
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Myra theatre.jpg
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- Myra
- Commons category
- Myra
- different from
- Myra
- native label
- Μύρα
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Elevador de Santa Luzia
- located in/on physical feature
- Mediterranean Region
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Mentions in New Testament
- Bishopric
- Arab and Turkic invasions
- Church of St. Nicholas at Myra
- Archaeology
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
- Photos and videos
thumb|300px|Cities of ancient Lycia. Red dots: mountain peaks, white dots: ancient cities
Myra (; ) was a city in Lycia in what is today Turkey. The city was probably founded by Lycians, and was located on the river Myros (; ), in the fertile alluvial plain between, the Massikytos range (; ) and the Aegean Sea. By the 3rd century BC, the city was Hellenized. Following the wars of the diadochi the area came under the loose control of the Ptolemies, the Seleucids, and finally the Romans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Myra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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