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Termessos<\/a> was our first encounter with the ancient world of Turkey. Originally built by the\u00a0Pisidians<\/strong>\u00a0sometime before\u00a0500 BCE, the city is situated on a mountain pass more than\u00a01000 meters above the coastal plain. Our guide told us they were raiders<\/strong> who periodically\u00a0preyed upon the people below. In 333\u00a0BCE Alexander the Great<\/strong> surrounded Termessos but could not conquer it. After that the site was Hellenized<\/strong> and later improved upon by the Romans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n We had to hike up several hundred feet to reach the site. The Inner Wall<\/strong> that stopped Alexander is mostly intact,\u00a0as is the spectacular Greek-Style Theater<\/strong> at the top. This is also where we first saw the Wood Fairy<\/strong>\u00a0(or Thread-Winged Lacewing), a beautiful insect that flitted around several of the ruins we visited.<\/p>\n This\u00a0Gallery<\/a> includes panoramas,\u00a0HDRs and a site map (in Turkish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Termessos was our first encounter with the ancient world of Turkey. Originally built by the\u00a0Pisidians\u00a0sometime before\u00a0500 BCE, the city is situated on a mountain pass more than\u00a01000 meters above the coastal plain. Our guide told us they were raiders who periodically\u00a0preyed upon the people below. In 333\u00a0BCE Alexander the Great surrounded Termessos but could not … Continue reading “Termessos Ruins, Turkey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16,20,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-flowers","category-history","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"termessos-turkey-lacewing-2016\"](\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/termessos-turkey-lacewing-2016.jpg\")
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