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Loryma resort hotel
Loryma (Ancient Greek: Λώρυμα) was an ancient town and episcopal see in the Roman province of Caria, in Asia Minor (Anatolia, Asian Turkey). It is now listed as a titular see.
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Location
Loryma was a small fortified town and harbour on the coast of Caria, not far from Cape Cynossema, at the western extremity of the peninsula known as Rhodian Chersonesus, opposite to and twenty Roman miles from Rhodes island.
Its ruins, west of Port Aplothiki, with towers, tombs and ramparts are described by William Martin Leake (Asia Minor, 223).
Above the bay of Loryma (modern Bozuk Bükü) lie the ruins of a curtain wall surrounding the top of the hill. Constructed from large blocks of stone shaped in-situ, the remaining walls (up to several metres high on the outside) retain very precise corners and sheer faces.
Ecclesiastical history
Up to the 12th and 13th centuries, the Notitiæ episcopatuum mention Loryma as one of the suffragan sees of the Stauropolis, the metropolitan see of Caria. Lequien (Oriens christianus, I, 915) names three bishops of Loryma: