Mugla

Mugla is the seat of Mugla province, which stretches along Turkey´s Aegean coast in the southwest of the country. Mugla is about 20 km (12 mi) inland, at an altitude of 660 meters in a pot-shaped small plain surrounded by mountains, and is the administrative capital of a province that includes the popular tourist resorts of Bodrum, Marmaris and Fethiye. In ancient times, Mugla was an insignificant settlement in the region of Caria, which was ruled from the larger coastal towns of Halicarnassos or Knidos. Mugla was part of the Rhodian Peraea, which was subject to Rhodes but not incorporated in the Rhodian state, and bore the Carian name of Mobolla. There are almost no ruins to reveal the history of the settlement of Mugla. On the high hill to the north of the city, a few ancient remains indicate that it was the site of an acropolis. Two inscriptions unearthed within the city are from the 2nd century B.C., attesting to Rhodian domination.