The sheltered natural bay was crucial to the settlement at Patara, in Lycia, as it became animportant harbour city. Alluvial infilling of the harbour and the sacking of the town in 1362led to Patara’s abandonment. Recent ...

Today, an area of reeds 1500 meters in length and 250 meters in width, extending from Gelemiş village to the south and to the beach, contained a long thin bay in antiquity (Fig. 1). This geographical feature, which we are ...