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Kekova, also named ''Caravola''Bertarelli (1929), p.134 ( Greek: '' Dolichiste''), is a small
City of Aperlae
/ref> and a castle. ccess to the village is possible only by sea. Üçağız (ancient name, Teimioussa) is a village one km from Kaleköy, north of a small bay by the same name, with the ruins of Teimioussa to the east. The name ''"Üçağız"'' means "three mouths", referring to the three exits to open sea.
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Kekova, also named ''Caravola''Bertarelli (1929), p.134 ( Greek: '' Dolichiste''), is a small Turkish
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island near Demre
Demre is a town and district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, named after the river Demre.
Demre is the Lycian town of Myra, the home of Saint Nicholas of Myra. The district was known as ''Kale'' until it was renamed ...
(Demre is the Lycian town of Myra
Myra ( grc, Μύρα, ''Mýra'') was a Lycian, then ancient Greek, then Greco-Roman, then Byzantine Greek, then Ottoman town in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of ...
) district of Antalya province which faces the villages of Kaleköy (ancient Simena) and Üçağız (ancient Teimioussa). Kekova has an area of and is uninhabited.
Island
After the Italian occupation ofKastelorizo
Kastellorizo or Castellorizo (; el, Καστελλόριζο, Kastellórizo), officially Megisti ( ''Megísti''), is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean.Bertarelli, 131 It lies roughly off the south co ...
, Kekova — which at that time was temporarily inhabited during summer because of wood harvest — was disputed between Italy and Turkey. The 1932 Convention between Italy and Turkey assigned it to Turkey.
On its northern side there are the partly sunken ruins of ''Dolchiste/Dolikisthe'', an ancient town which was destroyed by an earthquake during the 2nd century.
Rebuilt and still flourishing during the Byzantine Empire period, it was finally abandoned because of Arab incursions.
The ''Tersane'' (meaning "dockyard", as its bay was the site of an ancient city Xera and dockyard, with the ruins of a Byzantine church) is at the northwest of the island.
The Kekova region was declared a specially protected area on 18 January 1990 by the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forest. All kinds of diving and swimming were prohibited and were subjected to special permits from governmental offices. In later years the prohibition has been lifted, except for the part where the sunken city is located.
The Kekova region is and encompasses the island of Kekova, the villages of Kaleköy and Üçağız and the four ancient towns of Simena, Aperlae, Dolchiste and Teimioussa.
Kaleköy (locally just "Kale") (ancient Simena) is a Lycian site on the Turkish coast. It is a small village with the partly sunken ruins of Aperlae/ref> and a castle. ccess to the village is possible only by sea. Üçağız (ancient name, Teimioussa) is a village one km from Kaleköy, north of a small bay by the same name, with the ruins of Teimioussa to the east. The name ''"Üçağız"'' means "three mouths", referring to the three exits to open sea.
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