Olympos Beach, Antalya In Greek folklore, Mount Olympus was the home of the divine beings, and about twenty mountains in Anatolia and Greece were given this name. One of these is Mount Tahtali in the Olympus-Beydaglari National Park. In spite of the fact that at a tallness of 2374 meters the mountain isn't of an extraordinary elevation contrasted with numerous others in Turkey, the way that it ascends with such suddenness from the coast south of Antalya makes it a noteworthy sight. In its lower regions on the shore of the Mediterranean untruth the pleasant congested remnants of the city of Olympos, extending down a tight valley to the shore.Founded in Hellenistic occasions, Olympos got one of the first urban areas of the Lycian League, to which it had a place from 168 BC to 78 BC. It was one of just six urban areas holding three votes in the alliance. Later the city was bulldozed by Cilician privateers however revamped during the Roman time frame in the second century AD, and the greater part of the vestiges obvious today date from this period.
