Phaselis

Phaselis or Faselis was a Greek and Roman city on the coast of ancient Lycia [1]. Phaselis, like Olympos, was under constant threat from pirates in the 1st century BC, and the city was even taken over by the pirate Zekenites for a period until his defeat in 77 or 76 BC by the Romans under Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus [1]. When the Seljuqs began to concentrate on Alanya and Antalya as ports, Phaselis ceased to be a port of any note [1]. Phaselis became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Mira, the capital of the Roman province of Lycia [1]. Phaselis has three harbours: the 'Northern Harbour', the 'Battle Harbour' and the 'Protected Harbour' [1]. A 24-metre-wide ancient street runs through the middle of the city [1]. The 'Hadrian Waterway Gate' is on the southern part of the street [1]. There are ruins of shops and stores on the sides of the street and near these are ruins of public places such as Roman baths, agoras and theatres [1].