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Kayaköy is an abandoned settlement located 8 km southwest of the Fethiye district center in southwestern Anatolia, Muğla. Its historical process, according to philological and archaeological evidence, extends back to the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. In antiquity, Kayaköy was known as Karmylassos and later by the name Levissi. The region was initially settled by the Lycians, then came under the rule of Alexander the Great, the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Rum, before passing to the Menteşe dynas