Apollonia ad Rhyndacum Sur Kalıntıları

Apollonia ad Rhyndacum was the ancient name of the settlement now known as Gölyazı, a lake-bound peninsula town about 35 kilometers west of central Bursa in Nilüfer district. Founded as early as the 6th century BC, the city developed through the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods on a small promontory jutting into what was then Lake Apolloniatis, today's Uluabat Lake. Surviving remains include stretches of the old city walls, originally built in the Hellenistic period and later built over by the foundations of the town's traditional stone houses, as well as traces of an ancient theater and a temple to Apollo that has been the subject of recent excavation. Outside the settlement lies a necropolis used from Hellenistic into Byzantine times, where varied tomb types and skeletal remains have been documented. The combination of ancient fortification remnants, a later Greek Orthodox church, and the lake setting has earned the site the nickname Turkey's Little Venice.