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A Byzantine-era church, tombs, and inscriptions have been found during excavations carried out in the ancient city of Kaunos, which was included on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2014.

The ancient city is located in the western province of Muğla's Dalyan district and on the right bank of the Dalyan Stream that connects Köyceğiz Lake to the Mediterranean Sea.

A total of 378 new historical artifacts have been unearthed since the beginning of this year in the Stratonikeia ancient city located in Turkey's Aegean Muğla province. (Source: AA)

The prices of lands have skyrocketed due to the pandemic and the fear of earthquakes over the past years as the sales of plots have also surpassed the sales of houses across the country.

A group of Russian media personalities who visited the southwestern province of Muğla were delighted with the beauty of the region.

The guests arrived in Muğla as part of events organized to promote the tourism potential of the province and attract even more Russian tourists.

Ecological life has begun to revive in the areas damaged by fires in Turkey's southwestern Muğla province.

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Biologist Yasin Ilemin, a wildlife expert, photographed the greening of burnt areas in Marmaris district and the birds starting to return to the region.

As many as 274 forest fires in Turkey have been brought under control while one continues to burn in the Aegean province of Muğla, the country's agriculture and forestry minister said on Aug. 10. 

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Hills near the Turkish sea resort of Marmaris were once decked in a thick green pine forest until wildfires took the region in its grip, leaving the same hills looking like a ghostly, grey-brown landscape topped with blackened tree stumps as though sketched in charcoal.

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Ravaged by wildfires since July 28, Turkey has contained most of the 223 wildfires that took 47 provinces in its grip with only six wildfires remaining, Turkey's agriculture and forestry minister said on Aug. 7 as precipitation at the weekend helped end the wildfires in the southern province of Antalya.

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The weather gave Turkey some relief on Aug. 7 as officials in the southern province of Antalya said the blazes were under control in the southwestern province after rainfall.    

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And heavy rain was expected till afternoon in areas including Manavgat, one of the most affected by the fires.    

A fire in a residential area of southern Turkey forced some people to evacuate as the country continues to battle massive wildfires that broke out last week on the country's southern and southwestern coasts.

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