Eğribük (also known as Barbaros bay or ''Tahta Liman'') is a small

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...

bay with ruins in the beach, in south

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. Eğribük is in the

Silifke Silifke ( grc-gre, Σελεύκεια, ''Seleukeia'', la, Seleucia ad Calycadnum) is a town and district in south-central Mersin Province, Turkey, west of the city of Mersin, on the west end of Çukurova. Silifke is near the Mediterranean co ...

ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...

(district) of

Mersin Province Mersin Province ( tr, ), formerly İçel Province ( tr, ), is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of f ...

at It is at the end point in the canyon of the Akdere creek. The sea is to the east of the bay. It is connected to Turkish state highway which is between Mersin and west Turkey by a lane of about . Its distance to Silifke is and to Mersin is . The bay which is not on the highway is a rather secluded recreation spot with a natural beach. In the middle of the beach there are some ruins. The ruins belong to Palaiai (old city). Although there are very few ruins, the underwater survey reveals that most of Palaiai ruins are submerged in the water. There is also a necropolis area in the shrubbery to the west of the beach. Judging from the grave types it is believed that Palaiai was a Roman town.Archaeology blog
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{{Mersin Province Bays of the Mediterranean Landforms of Mersin Province Silifke District Bays of Turkey