Southern Aegean Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
part of Aegean Region, Turkey
About Southern Aegean
Datça is the long peninsula west of Marmaris which is taken as the boundary between the Aegean Sea to the north and the Mediterranean south. These are effectively the same body of water, pinched into channels here and there by Greek islands a few km offshore. Ancient people got around by sea: Caria was a Hellenistic kingdom which came under the sway of the Romans and later the Byzantines. Castles were built to defend their ports, and shrines to placate their gods: these suffered multiple earthquakes, conquests, desecrations and stone-robbing, but many remain as the region's finest assets. There was little industry apart from quarrying, and agriculture on the river plains between rugged hills. Tourism has a 2000-year tradition here but only brought in a mass market from the 1980s, drawn by
Southern Aegean Travel Guide Sections
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