Myra
Port
ancient city of Lycia in modern-day Turkey
Location: 36.2592, 29.9853 · Pleiades 639005
What this place is
- Port — the Lycian harbour where the centurion found the Alexandrian grain ship
Who is recorded here
- Paul the Apostle travel · AD 59
- Saint Nicholas death · AD 350
- Paul the Apostle residence
What happened here
- Nicholas bishop of Myra AD 330
In art
About the place
Myra was a city in Lycia in what is today Turkey. The city was probably founded by Lycians, and was located on the river Myros, in the fertile alluvial plain between, the Massikytos range and the Aegean Sea. By the 3rd century BC, the city was Hellenized.
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