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This page describes Dalyan in Muğla Province of Turkey, not the city of Dalian in China. For Dalyan village in the Troad Peninsula south of Çanakkale, see Geyikli. Dalyan is a small resort town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It's administratively part of Muğla province and in 2020 had a population of 5564. The main attraction is the ancient port of Kaunos, which silted up and lost its importance when a sandbar formed across the river estuary. This turned the navigable bay into a reedy wetland, and the site was abandoned in the 15th century AD.

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