I visited in the late 80s. There was a Greek family living at the bottom of the hill, the lady was called Maria, old before her years, there were no dolmus available so her son took us back to Hisaranou on his moped. at twighlight. Fantastic memories of this place however sad its history may be.
You absolutely must read "Birds Without Wings" by Louis DeBernierres, which uses Kayakoy as the setting for historical fiction that tells the story of the rise of Attaturk and the banishment of the Greek Christians. We listened to in on Audible as we drove around Turkey and arrived here just as we finished. Was the highlight of our trip.
Maybe you should also mention the many villagers forced out and massacred from 1916 as part of persecution of Orthodox Greeks and christians? This is not just a curiosity of history but a place where a lot of suffering occurred. 'The persecutions of Livissi inhabitants as well as Greeks of nearby Makri (Fethiye) were part of the wider campaign against all Ottoman Greeks and other Christians of the Empire (cf. Armenian deaths in World War I). The persecutions in the area started in 1914 in Makri. In 1916, a letter in Greek addressed to Sir Alfred Biliotti, the Consul General of Great Britain at Rhodes, explained the murders and persecution of Livissi and Macri Greeks who asked him for intervention. Unfortunately, the letter was intercepted at Livissi by Turkish authorities. Later that same year, many families of Livissi were deported and driven on foot to Denizli, around 220 km away. There, they suffered various extreme atrocities and tortures, facing even death.[4] Two more exile phases followed in 1917 and 1918.[5] In 1917, families were sent in villages near Denizli, such as Acıpayam, through forced march of fifteen days, consisting mainly of the elderly, women and children, who had remained in the area. During that death march, the roads were strewn with bodies of dead children and the elderly who succumbed to hunger and fatigue. The exiles of the next year were no less harsh.' Also, it is NOT a UNESCO site although it probably should be. Source - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayaköy
No. The villagers left this place in 1923 with population exchange. Muslim expelled from Greece with this aggrement settled in Karakoy but then they left.
visited here in 2004, fasinating and sad place, was suprised though to find a little bar there selling in-expensive drinks and food, also came across an english lady who had bought a small property very cheap there and was re-storing it, she intended to keep as much of the orginal building as it was, with mod cons of course, would love to go back and visit again.
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I visited Kayakoy or Livisi as it was named in Greek in 2005, indeed a mysterious and sad place. I put some pictures and background informatio on my website: www.anatolia.luwo.be/destinations/kayakoy.html
@@reinholdseiber8984 Kayaköy, anciently known in Greek as Karmilassos, shortened to Lebessos (Ancient Greek: Λεβέσσος) and pronounced in Modern Greek as Livissi (Greek: Λειβίσσι), is presently a village 8 km south of Fethiye in southwestern Turkey in the old Lycia province. From Ancient Greek the town name shifted to Koine Greek by the Roman period, evolved into Byzantine Greek in the Middle Ages, and finally became the Modern Greek name still used by its townspeople before their final evacuation in 1923. In late antiquity the inhabitants of the region had become Christian and, following the East-West Schism with the Catholic Church in 1054 AD, they came to be called Greek Orthodox Christian. These Greek-speaking Christian subjects, and their Turkish-speaking Ottoman rulers, lived in relative harmony from the end of the turbulent Ottoman conquest of the region in the 14th century until the early 20th century, when the rise of nationalism led to persecution of minorities within the Ottoman realm and the eventual creation of modern Turkey by the Turkish National Movement.
Thank you for taking us to visit these wonderful places ... very impressive this abandoned village ... both sad and beautiful ... superb music with us all along! Very nice video! *¨*•☆ Naturae Vox ☆•*¨*
Quiet place, relaxing and thought provoking. The marvelous bay beyond that tiny church on the top there. I went into a cave coming back down towards the entrance and cafe and met Orcan selling his beads at the old house, there was a tunnel there but he was'nt too pleased for me to venture into it, did you meet him?
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