🏛️ Xanthos and Letoon

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Xanthos or Xanthus, also referred to by scholars as Arna, its Lycian name, was an ancient city near the present-day village of Kınık, in Antalya Province, Turkey. The ruins are located on a hill on the left bank of the River Xanthos. The number and quality of the surviving tombs at Xanthos are a notable feature of the site, which, together with nearby Letoon, was declared to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.

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Xanthos and Letoon is a cultural World Heritage site in Turkey, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Xanthos and Letoon was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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