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Settlers from Argos, built the former ancient city of Cnidos on the Burgaz Plateau, which lays 2km eastern of Datça today, 700 B.C..
The city, which got rich by time, began to trade with their agricultural goods. The ship, which were sailing to the North, but couldn’t stand against the North-west wind, had to wait for the South wind at the cap of the semiisland. Therefore, to have a trade colony, a new Cnidos was built 360 B.C.. At Cape Deveboynu, they created two harbors, one on the North-bay, for the war ships, an done on the South-bay, for the trade ships.
The Cnidian had shown how they rich were, by estimating a treasure-chamber at the Apollon Temple in Delphi.
The famous mathematician and philosof Eudoxus, the scuplturer, who made the perfect Aphrodite-Statue, Praxiteles, Skopas, Bryaxis and the architect of the Great Lighthouse of Alexandria had lived in Cnidos.
The new Cnidos was built on terraces at a hill. Close to the city walls, by 40 metres height, the podest of the Aphrodite-Statue, the theater with 8.000 person capacity, the sunclock, the catacombs and the cemetery, by 284 metres height the Acropolis and the “Mausoleum of the Doctors” is still visitable. The “Lion-Statue” and the “Demether-Statue” and many other funds are kept elsewhere, where they have never belonged to, like the British Museum.
Other important historical places are Loryma (Bozukkale), Achantus, Bybassium, Hydas, Patakis, Soranda and Erine.
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