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Submitted by Armand on Tuesday, 27 March 2007  Page Views: 5324

Multi-periodSite Name: Alinda
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 7.279 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Çine  Nearest Village: Karpuzlu
Latitude: 37.558281N  Longitude: 27.829307E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Alinda
Alinda submitted by Armand : Portico agora (Vote or comment on this photo)
Important 4th Century BCE Carian city at Karpuzlu village in Çine District of Aydin Province. When Ada, the daughter of Hekatomnos, had been driven away by her brother Pixadaros from Halikarnassos, she went to Alinda in 340 BCE and made this city her capital.

The most important structure still remaining intact in Alinda is the agora (location given.) A theatre lies at the southern-west side of the acropolis. There are the foundations of two temples at the acropolis. Carian style tombs between Karpuzlu houses indicate that the Alinda necropolis lay on the southern side of the city.

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Aqueduct (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Theatre (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Portico agora (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Theatre

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Entrance office (coordinates 37.5579 / 27.8189)

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Detail door

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Burial

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Sarcophagus

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Alinda submitted by Armand : Necropolis

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Alinda submitted by davidmorgan : The agora at Alinda I'm afraid this is the closest I got at the end of an afternoon riding round Mount Latmos.

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Re: Alinda by Armand on Monday, 24 December 2018
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Re: Alinda by Armand on Monday, 24 December 2018
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Alinda could have been an important city since the second millennium BC and has been associated with Ialanti that appears in Hittite sources (J. Garstang, p. 179).

It was this fortress which was held by the exiled Carian Queen Ada. She greeted Alexander the Great here in 334 BC.

The city could have been renamed "Alexandria by the Latmos" (Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια στη Λάτμο) shortly afterwards, and was recorded as thus by Stephanus of Byzantium, although different sources raise different possibilities as to the exact location of the settlement of that name. The prior name of Alinda was restored by at least 81 BC. It appears as "Alinda" in Ptolemy's Geographia (Book V, ch. 2) of the 2nd century AD.

Alinda remained an important commercial city; minting its own coins from the third century BC to the 3rd century AD. Stephanus records that the city had a temple of Apollo containing a statue of Aphrodite by Praxiteles.

Alinda has a necropolis of Carian tombs and has been partially excavated. Alinda also had a major water system including a Roman aqueduct, a nearly-intact market place, a 5,000-seat Roman amphitheater in relatively good condition, and remains of numerous temples and sarcophagi.

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