Datça

Datça is a district of Muğla Province in south-west Turkey, and the center town of the district. The center is situated midway through the peninsula which carries the same name as the district and the town (Datça Peninsula). The long and narrow Datça Peninsula, whose outline follows the ondulations of small bays and coves facing south or north all along its length which reaches near 100 km (62 mi), corresponds almost exactly to Datça district area, with the addition beyond its isthmus of a small panhandle in the direction of the south-east. The isthmus itself is wide only of several hundred meters. The extreme end of the western tip of the district and the peninsula, the locality called Tekir, is the location of the ancient city of...