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Who is known as 'the Father of History', born on this coast?Added: 20 November 2008Herodatus of Halicarnassus (Bodrum), who was born 484 BC and who wrote ‘The Histories', definitely one of the most entertaining books ever written and the first great work written in Greek prose.
Who is the most well-known Christian saint who lived on this coast?Added: 20 November 2008St. Nicholas, originally the son of a wealthy grain merchant of Patara in the province of Lycia ,in the 4th Cent BC. Scholarly when young, he became a bishop at a young age and attended the Council of Nicaea with Emperor Constantine.
Where, on the Turkish coast, is the most innovative design for an Early Christian Church?Added: 20 November 2008In the ancient city of Caunus, on the Dalyan River, there are ruins, standing quite high, of an exquisite new and beautiful design of an early Byzantine church. It had a dome on pendentives with an intimate atmosphere flooded inside with light.
