Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissos ( grc, Τελμησσός or Τελμισσός), was a town in

ancient Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the ...

. Its site is tentatively located at the remains near Görece in Asiatic Turkey. There was a shrine dedicated to

Daphne Daphne (; ; el, Δάφνη, , ), a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. There are several versions of the myth in whi ...

in Telmessos.

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