Balbura (Lycia)

The city wall still stands on the northern hill up to 2.4 m high, with a stretch of polygonal masonry 1.8 m thick.

The former is of unusual construction as the cavea is interrupted in the centre by a large block of natural rock with the ends of the rows of seats attached.

Balbura was part of a district called Cabalia,[2] named Cabalis by Strabo with two other cities, Bubon and Oenoanda.

[3] Balbura was a bishopric early, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Myra, the capital of the Roman province of Lycia.

[5][6] Nicolaus was a signatory of the protest letter that the bishops of the province of Lycia sent in 458 to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian over the killing of Proterius of Alexandria.