Baths of Abdülfettah Ağa

The Baths of Abdülfettah Ağa are a historic Ottoman hammam in Milas District of Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey, in the ancient Carian heartland where Halicarnassus, Stratonikeia, and Mylasa — the ancient name of Milas — were among the great cities of the Aegean world. Milas itself was the ancient Mylasa, the early capital of the Hecatomnid satrapy that commissioned the original Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — and the hammam reflects the continuing bathing tradition in a region with an unbroken history of thermal culture from Hellenistic times through Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods. The baths served the community of a historically rich town surrounded by ancient temple ruins, Hellenistic gateways, and Ottoman mosques that make Milas one of the most archaeologically layered small cities in Anatolia.