Olympus (Lycia)

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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/