İdebessos

Idebessos or Idebessus was an ancient city in Lycia [1]. It was located at the foot of the Bey Mountains to the west of the Alakır river valley [1]. Today its ruins are found a short distance to the west of the small village of Kozağacı in the Kumluca district of Antalya Province [1]. The city lies at an altitude of 1050 m [1]. Except for a coin from the Classical period, which has been controversially attributed to the city, there is no evidence of the city's existence before the Hellenistic period [1]. Idebessos was a member of the Lycian League from its foundation in 168 BC [1]. Inscriptions mention that the city was a polis and a member of a sympoliteia with Akalissos and Kormos [1]. T. A. B. Spratt identified the ruins of the city as the remains of Idebessos in 1842 [1].