Antalya
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Antalya
- The group had booked themselves on a Thomas Cook flight to a beach resort in Antalya, a popular tourist destination in Turkey.
- resort in Antalya
- city of Antalya
- Antalya, Turkey
Examples
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The five-star "Topkapi Palace Hotel" in Antalya on the shores of the Mediterranean, a replica of the real Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, epitomizes this trend.
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Hard to say what the best meal of the year was, but it just might have been our dinner at Seraser in Antalya.
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And we have all of us in this villa in Antalya, which is about an hour's flight from Istanbul.
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Antalya, Turkey.
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You'd think so, except Qasim Amari is a diplomat located in the Turkish government's office in Antalya, Turkey.
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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts returned the top half of the so-called Weary Herakles statue, above, in 2011 so it could be reunited with its bottom half in Antalya.
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Erdogan's own security guards abducted a 46-year-old man from Antalya for speaking out in public against his social security policies, taking the man to a deserted location where the guards beat and threatened him.
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On August 27 and 28, for instance, the PKK bombed targets in Istanbul and the resort cities of Antalya and Marmaris, killing three people and wounding more than 100.
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Bursa is Prusa, Smyrna is Izmir, Adelea is Antalya, Iconium is Konya, and Ankara is Ankara.
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The prevalence of the disease was serologically found to be 3.01% in Antalya province, and between 0.9 and 6.1% in Isparta province, in Mediterranean parts of Turkey. Ukurova is nearby these two regions where research was held.
Academic text (2007)
Compounds
A gulf of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Turkey that attracts many tourists for its beautiful coast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Antalya comes from the old Greek name Attaleia, which was named for King Attalus. So it originally meant 'Attalus's city', and today the name still refers to the same city by the sea in southwestern Turkey.