DALYAN

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 order.