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A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« on: February 28, 2015, 20:50:37 PM »
It doesn't take much to fascinate me. Here is a brief description of Kaya from a publication from the 1840s I found





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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2015, 05:12:02 AM »
Ha ha - I initially read that as wine and fags !!!!

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2015, 07:02:09 AM »
We're there any photos of the village Keith? I've never been able to find one of what it would have looked like.

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2015, 08:06:43 AM »
Very unlikely.

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2015, 09:13:40 AM »
Photography would have been in it's very infancy in 1840's so hardly any photos....

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2015, 09:47:38 AM »
I have some pictures from expeditions around that time, but etchings. Sadly none feature Kaya, just Fethiye. The documentation for Fethiye from the same publication as the one above tells of the port of Makri (as Fethiye was known then) as a wretched and hovel filled place, so unhealthy that nobody can live in it during the summer months!

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2015, 10:04:43 AM »
Apparently the castle above the town was purely for fortification. No one actually lived there...

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2015, 10:10:05 AM »
Yes and there was once a second, smaller theatre adjacent - long gone even by the 1850s.

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2015, 10:13:12 AM »
41,000th post alert. Luckily, these days I do get out more  ;)

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Re: A Glimpse into Greek Kaya
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2015, 11:31:22 AM »
First time we visited there was a small Museum in the middle of the village in a courtyard that had a bar with just beer and fruit juice for sale.  There was just us, we had a drink and then the guy asked us would we like to see the museum.  He took us up the stairs and then around each exhibit and told us the history of the village and Turkish/Greek situation at that time all in great detail.  He spoke very good English and we were really engrossed in what he told us, a very interesting man.   We often wonder is he still there.




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