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Around Didim
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Didyma is located south of Miletus in modern Turkey and containing a temple of Apollo, the Didymaion. The town of Didyma is very small and close to the sea and praised by tourists and Turks on holiday for its golden sandy beaches. In Greek language Didyma means “twins” refers to the twins Apollo and Artemis, Didymaion means “twins temple”. It was an important sacred site in the ancient Greek world which was dedicated to twins - Artemis and Apollo. The Temple of Apollo was connected to Miletus by sea, and people arriving by ship would land at the harbor of Panormus and then follow the sacred way to Didyma.
The earliest fragments of the Apollo Temple found date back to the end of the 8th century BC. It was administered by the descendants of Bronchos.
He was a youth beloved of Apollo. The original temple was destroyed by Persians in 494 BC.
The oracle of Apollo at Didyma was rebuilt and quickly regained its importance during the reign of Alexander the Great because in 313 BC, the people in Miletus began to build a new Hellenistic temple on the site of the earlier shrine, which they intended to be the largest in the Greek world.
Construction continued during the Roman period as well but it was never entirely completed. Even incomplete it was the third largest temple of the ancient world.
If it had been completed, presumably it would have been one of the seven wonders. New religion Christianity put an end to all pagan rites and festivals in Anatolia and prevented the temple from being completed.
In the beginning of 5th century AD Emperor Theodosius had a church built in the sacred courtyard of temple.
The temple we see today which has measuring 60 x 118 m, with a dipteral arrangement of two rows of columns with 21 on each side and 10 at each end, is a superb example of architecture dating from the Greco-Roman period, and a sign of grandeur of this area, outstanding for culture and art.
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