At the western tip of the Datça peninsula is the ancient city of Knidos, where traces of almost all the periods of western Anatolian history are to be seen. The city was first founded in the 8th century BC on the site known as Old Knidos by the Dorians, who migrated eastwards via Rhodes and Syme, arriving at Datca in the 12th centuryBC. The names of the founders were said to be Triopias of Sparta and Hippotas. Six large Dorian colonies where the cult of Apollo was practised formed an alliance known as the Hexapolis.
(Location: Knidos - Datça Peninsula)

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