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14-558: The members of this hexapolis celebrated a festival, with games, on the Triopian promontory near Cnidus, in honour of the Triopian Apollo ; the prizes in those games were brazen tripods, which the victors had to dedicate in the temple of Apollo; and Halicarnassus was struck out of the league, because one of her citizens carried the tripod to his own house before dedicating it in the temple of Apollo. The hexapolis thus became

28-474: A low, 100m-wide spit of land; in antiquity, it was a man-made causeway. The island's ancient name was Triopion , after Triopas , the legendary founder of Knidos. The peninsula's eastern end is Bencik Cove, about 1.5 km in length and sometimes referred to as a fjord on the basis of local scales, and at the end of its indentation is the narrow isthmus where Datça Peninsula joins the Anatolian mainland

42-409: Is found. This point is a natural curiosity which offers a wide view of the two gulfs in the north and the south. The locality is called Balıkaşıran (literally, the place where fish may leap across ) and is also often used for the portage of small boats. The north coast is low, with vast beaches swept by the meltem winds in the summer. The south coast is dramatically rocky and indented. Because of

56-426: Is the name of one of the quarters of the town. 36°42′26.52″N 27°33′07.10″E  /  36.7073667°N 27.5519722°E  / 36.7073667; 27.5519722 Cape Deveboynu, Dat%C3%A7a Deveboynu Cape ( Turkish Deveboynu Burnu ; Greek Krio ; Ancient Greek : Τριόπιον , romanized :  Triopion ; Latin : Triopium and Triopia ) is a promontory in southwest Turkey , on

70-757: The Digesta seu Pandectae (533), the second volume of the codification of laws ordered by Justinian I (527–565) of the Eastern Roman Empire , a legal opinion written by the Roman jurist Paulus at the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century in 235 AD was included about the Lex Rhodia ("Rhodian law") that articulates the general average principle of marine insurance established on

84-646: The Aegean Sea , at the extreme end of the Datça Peninsula , north of the island of Rhodes . The modern town of Tekir is located there. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William , ed. (1854–1857). "Triopium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray. 36°41′06″N 27°22′06″E  /  36.6849°N 27.36846°E  / 36.6849; 27.36846 This geographical article about

98-494: The Chersonisos Cnidia . The eastern half of the peninsula is bare, mountainous, and scarcely inhabited. In the middle of the peninsula, centered around the town of Datça, is the peninsula's largest area of good land, extending towards the southwest of its median isthmus dividing the two halves of the land mass. The western part is also mountainous, rising in places over 1,000 meters, but has towards its western end on

112-507: The Doric Pentapolis . ( Herod. i. 144.) Pliny (v. 28) says, Caria mediae Doridi circumfunditur ad mare utroque latere ambiens , by which he means that Doris is surrounded by Caria on all sides, except where it is bordered by the sea. He makes Doris begin at Cnidus . In the bay of Doris he places Leucopolis , Hamaxitus , etc. An attempt has been made among scholars to ascertain which of two bays Pliny calls Doridis Sinus ,

126-490: The Peloponnese , cf. Dorian Hexapolis . The name Datça comes from Stadia , an ancient town. Stadia developed into Tadya , Dadya , Dadça , and then Datça . Both the town and the peninsula of Datça were called Reşadiye for a brief period in the beginning of the 20th century, honoring the penultimate Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reşad , and some maps may still refer to the peninsula under this name; today Reşadiye

140-648: The Reşadiye Peninsula , is an 80 km-long, narrow peninsula in southwest Turkey separating the Gulf of Gökova to the north from the Hisarönü to the south. The peninsula corresponds almost exactly to the administrative district of Datça , part of Muğla Province . The town of Datça is located at its halfway point. Previously, the ancient Greek names for the peninsula included the Dorian or Cnidos Peninsula or

154-832: The island of Rhodes in approximately 1000 to 800 BC as a member of the Doric Hexapolis, plausibly by the Phoenicians during the proposed Dorian invasion and emergence of the purported Sea Peoples during the Greek Dark Ages ( c.  1100  – c.  750 ) that led to the proliferation of the Doric Greek dialect . The law of general average constitutes the fundamental principle that underlies all insurance . 37°N 28°E  /  37°N 28°E  / 37; 28 Triopian promontory The Datça Peninsula , also known as

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168-490: The many natural bays and harbors, the peninsula is often visited by private yachts , and is included in the boat tours usually departing from Bodrum or Marmaris and termed Blue Cruises . There are ruins of Greek cities both at Datça and Tekir, one or both of which may correspond to ancient Knidos ( q.v. ). It was called the Dorian Peninsula or simply Doris because it was settled by Dorian colonists from

182-603: The more probable being the Ceramic Gulf . This Doris of Pliny is the country occupied by the Dorians, which Thucydides (ii. 9) indicates, not by the name of the country, but of the people: Dorians, neighbours of the Carians. Ptolemy (v. 2) makes Doris a division of his Asia , and places in it Halicarnassus , Ceramus , and Cnidus . The term Doris, applied to a part of Asia, does not appear to occur in other writers. In

196-404: The south side a considerable extent of well-watered land reaching to the coast at Palamutbükü locality and supporting a group of villages known collectively as Betçe ( the five villages ). At the tip of the peninsula in its extreme west is the locality called Tekir, marked by Cape Deveboynu , formerly Cape Crio/Kriyo. The cape is a small peninsula nearly an island, connected to the mainland by

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