Alakilise

Alakilise

Alakilise or Church of the Angel Gabriel is a church ruin in Lycia, Turkey near Finike and Demre.It is situated ca. 860 meter above sea-level at the southern flanks of Alaca Dağ.Now only one of the walls of the church stands.The church has served a sizeable village that probably was founded in the sixth century.The church itself is a sixth century basilica which was rebuilt in the ninth century.

It is on the Lycian Way trekking trail.

References

* Cite journal
author = Mahmut Akok, R. M. Harrison, Kenan Erim, Selahattin Turkoglu, Kristian Jeppesen, Afif Erzen, Manfred Korfmann, R. Naumann, H. Vetters, Jacques Bordaz, Louise Bordaz, Peter Frei, Anneliese Peschlow, Paolo Verzone, U. Bahadir Alkim, Machteld Mellink, W. Muller-Wiener, W. Radt, M. Olivier Pelon, C. H. Greenewalt, Jr., George F. Bass
title = Recent Archaeological Research in Turkey
journal = Anatolian Studies
volume = 28
year = 1978
pages = 9–37
doi = 10.2307/3642742
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0066-1546%281978%2928%3C9%3ARARIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

* Erik Petersen, [http://www.erikpetersen.dk/tyrkiet_05_lycia_14.html Waymarking af The Lycian Way. Den første langdistance]


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