Sidyma
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Sidyma (), was a town of ancient Lycia, at what is now the small village of Dudurga Asari in Muğla Province, Turkey. It lies on the southern slope of Mount Cragus, to the north-west of the mouth of the Xanthus.
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Sidyma (), was a town of ancient Lycia, at what is now the small village of Dudurga Asari in Muğla Province, Turkey. It lies on the southern slope of Mount Cragus, to the north-west of the mouth of the Xanthus.
== History == thumb|Plaque from Sidyma's agora, located in the present day village centre. The earliest settlement of Sidyma occurred in the iron age. Sidyma was mentioned in the 1st century BC by Alexander Polyhistor, and later by Pliny the Elder, Stephanus of Byzantium, the Synecdemus, and the Notitiae Episcopatuum. The earliest documentation of the city is from 425 BC, where the city is mentioned as belonging to the Delian League.
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