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Mount Chimaera was the name of a place in ancient Lycia, notable for constantly burning fires. ... Near Adratchan, not far from the ruins of Olympus, a number of ...
The place where she lived was called Mount Chimaera. [3] An Irish-born British naval officer named Francis Beaufort surveyed the region in 1811 and concluded that Yanartaş was the fabled mountain, citing the ancient Roman writer Pliny, who had made the same claim.
Turkey’s Olympos Beydagları National Park is home to the burning rocks of Yanartaş, where flames created by methane emissions once spawned ancient Greek legends.
This is the location of ancient Mount Chimaera. Through the cul-de-sac between Baydağlari and Tahtalidağlari, the Alakir Çay ('Alakir River'), the ancient Limyra, flows to the south trickling from the broad valley under superhighway D400 near downtown Kumluca across a barrier beach into the Mediterranean.
Chimaera Ravine: Avlan valley. [12] Strabo says it is a ravine "extending up from the shore." Chimaera Mountain: Turkish Yanartaş. [12] Pliny speaks of an eternal flame, which turns out to be a steady stream of inflammable gas. Chlyda: Listed by Ptolemy as a coastal town Choma: Near Sarılar. [12] Ptolemy, Pliny, who says it is on the Aedesa ...
Olympus or Olympos (Ancient Greek: Ὄλυμπος, Ólympos; Latin: Olympus) was a city in ancient Lycia.It was situated in a river valley near the coast. Its ruins are located south of the modern town Çıralı in the Kumluca district of Antalya Province, southwestern Turkey.
Augusta Trayana (Roman ruins of modern Stara Zagora) Bacho Kiro cave; Castra Martis; Dionysopolis; Develtos; Diocletianopolis (modern Hisarya) Durankulak lake and island ; Ezero (tell) Heraclea Sintica; Ivanovo Rock-hewn Churches; Kabyle; Kaliakra; Karanovo (tell) Kozarnika cave
Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for "she-goat") originally referred to: Chimera (mythology) , a fire-breathing monster of ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals Mount Chimaera , a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia typically considered the inspiration for the myth