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The City That Say Stop to The
Great Alexander: Termessos

Fig. 50: Termessos Theater and Solymos-Güllük Mountain Bhind.
Termessos is a lofty mountain that was called Solymos at the
time, and today it is called Güllük, and a city as high as it is lo-
cated in the deep valley between the peaks of this mountain. As
it is difficult to reach the peaks of Güllük, it is as difficult to reach
Termessos and it has always been difficult in history. So much
so that even the glorious Alexander the Great, who took almost
all of Anatolia and Asia, could not afford to take Termessos, the
city of the Solyms, one of the oldest warrior peoples of Anatolia,
where even the hero Bellerophon was defeated by force.
During his Asian expedition in 334 BC Alexander and his
great army captured all of Pamphylia and set out for Phrygia.
While continuing on this route, Alexander encountered Termes-
sos, the city of the warrior Solyms, in the Yenice Strait, which
is located on the Antalya-Korkuteli road. It is at the end of this
encounter that the great fame of Termessos begins.

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