Ancient site· Kaş, Antalya
Kandyba
Kandyba is a ancient site in Kaş, Antalya; Kandyba (Candyba) is an ancient Lycian city in the village of Çataloluk in the Kaş district of Antalya, set on a high hill overlooking the Kasaba Plain about 13 km north of Kaş.
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- 36.3190°N · 29.6738°E
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Kandyba (Candyba) is an ancient Lycian city in the village of Çataloluk in the Kaş district of Antalya, set on a high hill overlooking the Kasaba Plain about 13 km north of Kaş. Though one of the smaller Lycian cities, it was an independent polis with voting rights in the Lycian League and minted its own coins. Its remains include finely carved rock tombs and a Lycian inscription, and in the Roman period it served as a bishopric subordinate to Myra.
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A Lycian city in Çataloluk village in Kaş, Antalya, built on a high hill commanding the Kasaba plain, 13 km north of Kaş. Its name appears as Hinduwa in Hittite texts and as Xãkbi in Lycian, and is thought to come from Luwian or Lycian. Although it was one of Lycia's smaller cities, it was an independent polis with a vote in the Lycian League and struck coins in its own name. Some of its rock tombs are exceptionally finely cut, and a flawless inscription in Lycian characters was found on the site. The modern village lies just south of the ruins.
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- A coin obtained from villagers carries the letters KAND, the abbreviation of the city's name.
- The name Kandyba has been read as the man of the Mother Goddess, or as belonging to the chief god.
- Because it lay in the Roman province of Lycia, its bishopric answered to Myra, the provincial capital.
- Two of its bishops are known: Constantinus, at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, and Basilius, at Constantinople in 879.
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