Körteke Kalesi stands on a high hill called Kale Tepe northeast of Körteke village in Bozdoğan, Aydın — one of what the provincial directorate calls the Lelegian hill towns of inner Caria. The directorate records that the town was probably Xyatis.
Traces of different periods survive on the castle walls, which the directorate takes as showing the site was used across several ages.
The acropolis sits on the rocky summit, with a tower at each of its eastern and western ends and a cistern between them. An inner wall with three towers closes it from the south; the directorate dates that wall to the fifth century BC on its own reading.
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- Climate
- Across Aydın as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 8.2 °C in January to 28.4 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (126 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
