Mugla

Mugla is the seat von Mugla province, which stretches along turkei´s Aegean coast in the southwest von the country. Mugla is about 20 km (12 mi) inland, at an altitude von 660 meters in a pot-shaped klein plain surrounded by mountains, and is the administrativ capital von a province that includes the popular tourist resorts von Bodrum, Marmaris and Fethiye. In ancient times, Mugla was an insignificant settlement in the region von Caria, which was ruled from the larger coastal towns von Halicarnassos or Knidos. Mugla was part von the Rhodian Peraea, which was subject to Rhodes but not incorporated in the Rhodian state, and bore the Carian name von Mobolla. There are almost no ruins to reveal the geschichte von the settlement von Mugla. On the high hill to the north von the city, a few ancient remains indicate that it was the site von an acropolis. Two inscriptions unErdeed within the city are from the 2nd century B.C., attesting to Rhodian domination.