Olympos - A Pirates Tow in Lycia
ISBN 9789758293957
Yayınevi Homer Kitabevi ve Yayıncılık
Yazarlar Yelda Olcay Uçkan (author)
Kitap Tanıtımı Noteworthy especially for its cultural assets and natural beauty, the city of Olympos has suffered damage by nature through the centuries accelerated by tourism in the recent years. Therefore, excavations, cleaning, documentation and architectural inventory work of urban plan together with its monuments has been plotted on the topographical map in digital format has been updated. This project was carried out in order to facilitate the foreseen arrangement and restoration programme.The fact that Olympos was not settled by the Turks allowed its medieval urban pattern to be preserved. Being one of the few sites with medieval urban pattern stil preserved, Olympos bears importance for the medieval history of the Mediterranean.