Gökabat

Gökabat lies at the head of the long Gulf of Gökova, where the Aegean reaches a plain enclosed by wooded mountains. The gulf extends between the Bodrum and Datça peninsulas, offering sheltered waters along an indented coast. Ottoman records list Gökabad among the districts of Menteşe in the seventeenth century. Its villages occupied the low ground and surrounding slopes between Muğla and the sea.