Fethiye Gemile Adasıvisitor guide.

Gemiler Island is located 9 km from Fethiye at the southern tip of Fethiye Gulf in Muğla Province, known locally as Gemile Island. Some legends exist regarding its name; for instance, a medieval nautical navigation guide records that the church at the highest elevation of the island was dedicated to Saint Nicholas. An east-west dividing wall on the northern slope partitions ecclesiastical monuments clustered atop the hill from secular and commercial structures below, demonstrating that the upper summit served as a sacred precinct. Inhabited between the 5th and 13th centuries AD, the dense concentration of religious monuments reflects increased maritime pilgrimage voyages from the Near East to Aegean and Mediterranean shores in the 5th–7th centuries, while demonstrating ancient and Byzantine maritime trade links between the Near East and Europe. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS AMYNTAS ROCK TOMBS KAUNOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE AND ROCK TOMBS FETHİYE KAYAKÖY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE LETOON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE MUĞLA FETHİYE MUSEUM PINARA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE TLOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE