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HISTORICAL REMAINS NEAR BODRUM PENINSULA
The most important cities of Caria were Halikarnassos ( Bodrum ) and Knidos (Datça). Other cities on the Güllük Gulf were Bargylia (Asarlik), Iasos (Kiyikislacik); on western end of the Bodrum Peninsula, Myndos (Gümüslük); on the inner part of the peninsula, Pisada and Theangela; and to the south of the Gulf of Gökova, Keramos (Ören) and Kedria (Sedir Island).
There were other settlements inland at Mylasa (Milas); Labranda, which is linked to Mylasa by a 14 kms long road; to the north where there was Mylasa Euromos (Ayakli); and Araphisar, which was close to the Alabanda Stream. In addition, there was Gerga; nearby Yatagan; Stratonikeia and Lagina; Kaunos (Dalyan) which used to be on the sea until the waterway silted up.
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