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The ___MASK12___ is an elongated embayment of the ___MASK95___ located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas , i . e ., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey . In the north , it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosphorus . The Aegean Islands are within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery , including Crete and Rhodes . Myra ([ plural ]) was an ancient Greek town in Lycia where the small town of Kale (" Demre ") is situated today , in present - day Antalya Province of Turkey . It was located on the river Myros (" Demre Çay "), in the fertile alluvial plain between Alaca Da , the Massikytos range and the ___MASK12___ . Lycia ( Lycian :  " Trm  mis " ) was a geopolitical region in Anatolia in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Mula on the southern ___MASK64___ of Turkey , and Burdur Province inland . Known to history since the records of ancient Egypt and the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age , it was populated by speakers of the Luwian language group . Written records began to be inscribed in stone in the Lycian language ( a later form of Luwian ) after Lycia ' s involuntary incorporation into the Achaemenid Empire in the Iron Age . At that time ( 546 BC ) the Luwian speakers were decimated , and Lycia received an influx of Persian speakers . Turkey , officially the Republic of Turkey ( Turkish : ), is a transcontinental country in ___MASK81___ , mainly in Anatolia in Western ___MASK79___ , with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . Turkey is a democratic , secular , unitary , parliamentary republic with a diverse cultural heritage . Turkey is bordered by eight countries : Greece to the west ; Bulgaria to the northwest ; Georgia to the northeast ; Armenia , the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east ; and ___MASK73___ and Syria to the south . The Aegean Sea is to the west , the Black Sea to the north , and the ___MASK95___ to the south . The Bosphorus , the Sea of Marmara , and the Dardanelles , which together form the Turkish Straits , divide Thrace and Anatolia ; they also separate Europe and ___MASK79___ . Turkey ' s location has given it geopolitical and strategic importance throughout history . Kekova , also named Caravola ( Lycian : Dolichiste ) , is a small Turkish island near Demre ( Demre is the Lycian town of Myra ) district of Antalya province which faces the villages of Kaleköy ( ancient Simena ) and Üçaz ( ancient Teimioussa ) . Kekova has an area of and is uninhabited . Antalya Province is located on the Mediterranean ___MASK64___ of south - west Turkey , between the Taurus Mountains and the ___MASK95___ . Antalya is the fifth most populous city in Turkey and the capital of its eponymous province . Located on Anatolia ' s flourishing southwest ___MASK64___ bordered by the Taurus Mountains , Antalya is the largest Turkish city on the Mediterranean ___MASK64___ with over one million people in its metropolitan area . The ___MASK95___ ( pronounced ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean , surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land : on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia , on the south by North Africa , and on the east by the Levant . The sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean , although it is usually identified as a separate body of water . The ___MASK75___ ( Turkish : " Toros Dalar ", Ancient Greek :   ) are a mountain complex in southern Turkey , dividing the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau . The system extends along a curve from Lake Eirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east . It is a part of the Alpide belt in Eurasia . Demre is a town and its surrounding district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean ___MASK64___ of Turkey , named after the river Demre . Ancient Greek includes the forms of Greek used in ___MASK21___ and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD . It is often roughly divided into the Archaic period ( 9th to 6th centuries BC ), Classical period ( 5th and 4th centuries BC ), and Hellenistic period ( 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD ). It is antedated in the second millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek . Kaleköy ( literally " Castle ' s village " in Turkish ; - " Simena "), is a village of the Demre district in the Antalya Province of Turkey , located between Ka and Demre , on the Mediterranean ___MASK64___ . Kaleköy faces the island of Kekova , and can be reached by sea or on foot from Üçaz .