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Idebessos, Idebessus

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Idebessos or Idebessus, also known as Edebessus or Edebessos ()William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), s.v. Edebessus or (), was an ancient city in Lycia. It was located at the foot of the Bey Mountains to the west of the Alakır river valley. Today its ruins are found a short distance to the west of the small village of Kozağacı in the Kumluca district of Antalya Province, Turkey. The site, 21 kilometres north-northwest of Kumluca, is overgrown with forest and hard to reach."Idebessos Lycia, Turkey" in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites Read more on Wikipedia

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