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10-APR-2013 marie-jose wolff

Olympos

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The former city of Olympos was founded in the Hellenistic period, presumably taking its name from nearby Mount Olympos (Turkish: Tahtalı Dağı, Timber Mountain), one of over twenty mountains with the name Olympos in the Classical world.
From these mountains of the Solymi, according to Homer, the god Poseidon looked out to sea and saw Odysseus sailing away from Calypso's island, and called up a great storm that wrecked him on the shores of the island of Nausicaa.
The coins of the city of Olympos date back to the 2nd century BC. It was described by Cicero as an ancient city full of riches and works of art. The city became one of the six leading cities of the Lycian League. In the 1st century BC, Olympos was invaded and settled by Cilician pirates. This ended in 78 BC, when the Roman commander Publius Servilius Isauricus, accompanied by the young Julius Caesar, took the city after a victory at sea, and added Olympos to the Roman Empire. The pirate Zenicetes set fire to his own house and perished.The emperor Hadrian visited the city after which it took the name of Hadrianopolis for a period, in his honour.
(wikipedia)

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Yohanan David17-Apr-2014 08:21
Beautiful composition ! V
pascal10-May-2013 07:34
Superbe endroit !
Being Me07-May-2013 19:17
So beautiful!
Sam_C06-May-2013 06:05
Beautiful shot, thanks for the interesting caption! V++
Fabienne05-May-2013 19:37
Superbe paysage. Composition et lumières sont excellentes.
zyziza05-May-2013 15:23
So, you was looking for the roots of our civilization mjo ;-)
Interesting place for thinking about it.
It looks modest now, but erlier........
BV
Tom LeRoy05-May-2013 08:57
A beautiful place fitting an emperor. Nice light on this great landscape scene! V
Herbey Morales05-May-2013 07:28
What a lovely and relaxing place! v
woody3405-May-2013 04:09
Such a beautiful scene and an amazing history...lovely work...V
Jim Coffman04-May-2013 17:17
Very beautiful work,Marie!
Gerard Koehl04-May-2013 16:50
Ce paysage est merveilleux. V
Helen Betts04-May-2013 16:31
A lovely little inlet and capture of it. I lived for many years in Turkey and have been to Antalya, but never made it to Olimpos. V.
danad04-May-2013 15:17
A very nice place to seat and watch. V.
Long Bach Nguyen04-May-2013 15:00
lovely landscape image
globalgadabout04-May-2013 14:37
certainly attractive here, and clear signs of it's long history..V
Walter Otto Koenig04-May-2013 14:34
A lovely landscape image. Very relaxing atmosphere. "V"
François Fauchard04-May-2013 14:24
Très belle carte postale. V
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