Kaş

Kaş occupied the site of Antiphellos on the mountainous Lycian coast. Known in Turkish as Andifli, the settlement faced the Mediterranean beneath steep cliffs, with the island of Kastellorizo a short distance offshore. Its inherited name recalled its ancient role as the harbor of Phellos, the inland settlement above it. Tombs and the coastal theater preserved traces of that earlier port within the landscape of the later town.

After Seljuk rule weakened, the surrounding country came under the Teke principality. Ottoman expansion subsequently brought this coast into the sultan's lands; the municipal history associates its incorporation with Bayezid I. Through the early modern centuries Andifli remained distinct from Kasaba in the interior, where the district's administrative center was located. The harbor and the inland seat thus occupied different places, connected across the rugged terrain of southern Anatolia. The coast's succession of Lycian, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman names left Andifli with several historical identities, while its position between the uplands and the sea continued to define its setting.