🏛️ Anemourion-Antiocheia ad Cragum
Ruined Roman coastal settlement on the Cilician coast
📌 Fast Facts
- Location: Anamur district, Mersin Province, southern Türkiye
- Period: Hellenistic to Byzantine (3rd century BCE–7th century CE)
- Key structures: Fort, basilica, residential buildings, pottery kiln
- Access: Open-air archaeological site; no formal admission control
Anemourion-Antiocheia ad Cragum is an archaeological site comprising the remains of a Greco-Roman coastal settlement on the Mediterranean coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Türkiye. The site occupies a rocky promontory near the modern town of Anamur and contains ruins dating from the Hellenistic period through the Byzantine era. Excavation and survey work has revealed a settlement pattern typical of smaller Roman provincial harbours, with domestic, commercial, and defensive structures ...