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Milas

Also known as Mylasa

Milas is a town in Muğla province, south-western Turkey, on the site of ancient Mylasa, the capital of Caria under the Hecatomnid dynasty. In the late thirteenth century it was taken by Turkmen raiders and became a chief town of the Menteshe beylik, whose rulers built mosques there. Ibn Battuta visited it in the 1330s and praised its ruler Orhan Bey.

Milas
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Milas. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/milas
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