Aptera

Aptera is an obsolete taxonomic category, which included the Apterygota along with various other wingless arthropods.

Aptera may also refer to:

Aptera also serves as a specific epithet in the names of various species:

See also

List of Lycian place names

This article contains a list of Lycian place names that have survived from ancient Lycia in Anatolia. Names of settlements and geomorphic features are known from ancient literary sources. Ptolemy's Geography lists places in Asia Minor and specifically Lycia.Strabo's Geography has a section on Lycia as well, as does Pliny's Natural History.Stephanus of Byzantium includes a large number of Lycian places in Ethnica.Hierocles in Synecdemus lists the cities in the eparchy of Lycia.William Martin Leake's Journal of his own trips through Anatolia, as well as of those of many other travellers, with analyses of sources, mainly Ptolemy, is still a valuable source of information on the locations and appearances of the Lycian sites. In addition, numerous inscriptions in the Lycian language state some place names in their Lycian forms. The topographical information comes from the Aydin thesis, and was developed from Turkish military maps.

This article does not address the task of defining Lycia. Over a thousand or more years, the borders of the historical territory, called Lycia in English, are not likely to have remained invariant. This list includes places named by some source at some time as "Lycian", and also any settlement with a Lycian language name, even though located in some other city-state. "Lycia" therefore represents a maximum territory, to which any historical Lycia was never exactly identical.