Telmessos or Telmessus (Ancient Greek: Τελμησσός or Τελμισσός), was a town in ancient Caria.

Its site is tentatively located at the remains near Görece in western Anatolia.[1][2] There was a shrine dedicated to the nymph Daphne in Telmessos.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  2. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  3. ↑ "Daphne". Archived from the original on 2006-11-12. Retrieved 2006-11-11.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Telmessus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

37°02′23″N 27°19′04″E / 37.0397°N 27.3178°E / 37.0397; 27.3178


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmessos_(Caria)