EGETÜRKİYE

Vast blue lake surface, reed beds, and ancient Lydian mountains rising in the background.
Gölmarmara Lake Gygaia (Marmara Lake) and Halime Hatun Complex

Research inventory

ManisagolmarmaraBronze Age

Gölmarmara Lake Gygaia (Marmara Lake) and Halime Hatun Complex

Reading the place

Not one monument, but a layered setting.

Lake Gygaia at Gölmarmara represents Manisa's royal natural monument, celebrated since Lydian antiquity.

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Manisa · golmarmara

Research note

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How to use this dossier

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Narratives that include this place

Periods

  • Bronze Age
  • Ionia & Aeolis
  • Ottoman era
  • The Aegean today

Regional context

Inner Aegean

Research sources

District guide

Gölmarmara

Province guide

Manisa