Late Bronze Age The Hittite name was
Kuwalapašša, while the Lycian name was
Telebehi. In the 13th century BC, the Annals of
Hattusili III mentions the city as a part of Lukka (Lycia) and conquered by the Hittites. Another Hittite document mentions the cities of Kuwalapašša and
Dalawa sent aid to Hittites during the war against Iyalanda.
Iron Age Telmessos was a flourishing city in the west of Lycia, on the
Gulf of Fethiye. It was famed for its school of diviners, consulted among others by the Lydian king
Croesus, prior to declaring war against
Cyrus. Telmessos was a member of the
Delian League in the 5th century BC. It was taken by
Alexander the Great in 334 BC, when he came to the town after the siege of
Halicarnassus.
Middle Ages Telmessos was renamed Anastasiopolis in the 8th century AD, apparently in honour of Emperor
Anastasios II, but this name did not persist. The city came to be called
Makri, after the name of the island at the entrance to the harbor. This name is attested for the first time in 879 AD. However, an inscription of the 7th century found in Gibraltar and bearing the ethnonym "Makriotes" (from Makri) may indicate an earlier existence of name
Makri. Its ruins are located at
Fethiye. == Church history ==