Photo: “Termessos - Theater”, Ingo Mehling · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for the web.
TÜRKIYE · ANTIQUITY
Termessos
Τερμησσός
A fortified Pisidian city set 1,050 metres above sea level on Mount Güllük. Its walls, the King’s Road, a theatre, an odeon, cisterns and rock-cut tombs survive.
- Original name
- Τερμησσός
- Country
- Türkiye
- Period
- Antiquity
- Civilisation
- Pisidian
- UNESCO
- On the World Heritage Tentative List
- Location
- 36.9836° N, 30.4631° E Open in OpenStreetMap Open in Apple Maps
Open in the app Coming soon to the App Store
If Antigone is installed, this button opens the city straight in the app.
A QUESTION FROM THE ROAD
Which mountain was Termessos built on?
The answer, and all of the city’s lessons, are in the app.