Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissos ( or Τελμισσός), was a town in

ancient Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; ) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid- Ionia ( Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Carians were described by Herodotus as being Anatolian mainlanders ...

. Its site is tentatively located at the remains near Görece in Asiatic Turkey. There was a shrine dedicated to

Daphne Daphne (; ; , , ), a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but t ...

in Telmessos.

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Populated places in ancient Caria Former populated places in Turkey Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey {{AncientCaria-geo-stub