Patara
Port
Lycian settlement on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey
Location: 36.2603, 29.3142 · Pleiades 639042
What this place is
- Port — the Lycian harbour where the company left the coasting vessel for a ship sailing straight to Phoenicia
Who is recorded here
- Paul the Apostle travel · AD 57
- Saint Nicholas birth · AD 250
In art
About the place
Patara was an ancient and flourishing maritime and commercial city that was for a period the capital of Lycia. The site is located on the Turkish coast near to the village of Gelemiş, in Antalya Province.
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0