Gulf of Fethiye

The Gulf of Fethiye opens onto the southwestern coast of Anatolia between Cape Kurdoğlu and Cape İblis. Islands are scattered through its waters, and mountains rise behind its sheltered bays. In antiquity it was known as the Gulf of Telmessos, after the city that stood on its shore near the frontier of Lycia and Caria. Lydae was another ancient settlement beside the gulf, whose waters connected the coast with the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.