Olympus was an ancient city of Lycia, its ruins now near the modern village of Cirali in Turkey Antalya Province, set in a valley where a creek runs down to the Mediterranean Sea. It was one of the six leading cities of the Lycian League and held three votes in the League federal assembly, ranking as a major port alongside Patara, Myra and Phaselis with an economy built on trade and maritime commerce. Around 76 BC it was expelled from the League after a conflict between local pirates and Rome, though by the second century AD it had regained its elite League status. Christianity reached the city by the third century, and it became a bishopric that built nine churches during the Byzantine period before being abandoned during or after Arab raids; today the ruins are a popular tourist destination.
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Latitude36.396558 degrees north 1 Climate Zone Sources
1. Olympus (Lycia) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 36.396558, longitude 30.473542
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.25, 30.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.25, 30.25
36.25 30.25 Csa
3. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Istanbul; TR has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Europe/Istanbul; TR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 ... 2:00 EU EE%sT 2016 Sep 7 3:00 - %z
Olympus (Lycia) (Wikipedia)
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Olympus or Olympos (Ancient Greek: Ὄλυμπος, Ólympos; Latin: Olympus) is an ancient city in Lycia.
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and country
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