Milas

Milas, a province of Muğla province, is a tourist destination worth seeing with its beaches, lakes, ancient cities, Turkish and Islamic artifacts.
Milas (MYLASSA) is one of the most important and largest centers of Western Caria. While the city was established on the skirts of Sadra Mountain and the hills in front of this mountain, it spread towards the plain in time. The fact that the temple of Zeus Karius is located here and the temple of Zeus Labranda is very close to here has made Mylassa (Milas) the religious center of Karia.
Ancient Mylasa, one of the most important cities of Caria, was named after Mylasos, who, according to mythology, was the descendant of Aiolos, who lived on the island of Aiolia in the Mediterranean and dominated the winds. The "scepter" suffix at the end of the name of Mylasa indicates that Milas was founded in ancient times (3,000 BC).
Alexander the Great, who went on an Asian expedition in 334 BC, took South-Western Anatolia and Milas in the meantime, and gave the lands he had acquired to the Queen of Caria, Ada.
Mylasa BC. It arbitrated a class dispute in 143 at the request of the Roman emperor Macmilius, and after that date it became the center of courts presided over by Roman Governors. Milas, which was the episcopacy center during the Byzantine period, later passed into the hands of the Seljuks, Menteşeoğulları and the Ottomans.