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The
rock graves of Caunos,which are opposite the locality
Dalyan a a steep mountain-slope,did not lose their
splendour for thousands of years.First which the eye is
seen,that itself the rock graves of caunos and the
present graves the same atmosphere divide.
The
inhabitants of Dalyan love the Caunien and as the
descedants of those accapted themselves.The 2500 years
of old king graves from Kaunos are as in the first years
splendid.They cannot turn away their views from the
graves,This region was once under the rule of the Carian.Howewer
the antiquity city Caunos had is own culture and was
independent.The city is surrounded with all a wall,which
shows different building phases.In the centre the Greek-roman
theatre,the hot spirng system,the Agora,business,the
port,Nymphaen is appropriate for the antique city.
The
total population of the city had never been over 4000
humans.A large part of the Caunian with fishery,fig
breed,cattle breeding,and maritime trade concerned
themselves.After the 8.Jh.n.Chr.the urban population and
a port of the population became impoverished settled as
a worker in Agean.
The
Caunian living up to the collapse in the city destroyed
the old buildings around port to win.In order to produce
weapons,kitchen tableware and agricultural creatures,after
historical researchers the remaining ancient buildings
of the city were destroyed because of strong rainfails
anf buried underground.Caunos was continuously exposed
to hostile attaccks because of its strategic position.One
sees the Persian,Lycian,Roman,Byzantine and later the
Seldjuks supremacy inthis region.The Caunier lived
particulary a long time under the Roman rule and by its
culture was influenced.
The
city lives on with the Caunos legend.It told that the
king Miletos of twins had.A son named Caunos and
daughter named Byblis.After the legend loving forbidden
by Caunos its sister became from the brother love.When
father Miletos of this love experienced,he hunted its
son Caunos from the city.The hunted Caunos came into
this region and created here its city with its own name.The
city had a very important port in the antiquity.The
excavations in the city began 1966 and still persist.In
the next years the Roman hot spring system is modifed to
a museum and released so to the tourism.
Caunos, the son of Miletos, had been indicated as the
founder of the city and therefore, it had been named
Caunos. The city was first captured by the Persians and
then by Alexander and in the year 189 B.C., it was made
subject to the Kingdom of Rhodes. We know that it
continued until the year 167 B.C. Caunos was the
subjected to the kingdom of Pergamon and was brought
directly under the sovereignty of Rome after 133 B.C.
You reach the site of the ruins by means of channel
adorned with Lycian type tombs belonging to the 4th
century B.C. The first place that we see is the
acropolis of Caunos. The northern part of the city wall,
which surrounds the acropolis, belongs to the period of
.Mausolos. The northwestern part has Hellenistic
qualities. And starting from the harbour are seen the
city walls of Cyclopean type belonging to the Archaic
Period.The theater belonging to the Roman Period is
located at the skirt of the acropolis and its southern
part is carved in the rock; the other parts are shaped
into seats supported by gable roof vaults. There are 33
rows of seats, the scene has collapsed and the part of
the orchestra has been filled in.A temple, revealed by
the recent excavations, is located at far west of the
theater, and a church and the magnificent walls of the
Roman Bath are visible beyond it. Another temple
belonging to the Roman Period is located behind the bath.
As we go downwards, we see the remains of a wall built
in the shape of three-fourths of a circle with a row of
columns on it and, behind it, a temple of the Doric
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