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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 order
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