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Pinara

Pinara was a city of ancient Lycia on the western side of the Xanthos valley in south-western Turkey, and one of the six largest members of the Lycian League. It lies below a sheer cliff honeycombed with hundreds of rock-cut tombs, and its ruins include a theatre, an odeon and Lycian house-tombs with carved reliefs. The city declined in the Byzantine period.

Pinara
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Lycian League

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