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Phaselis was a Lycian coastal city that owed much of its prosperity to timber trade — specifically the cedar and fir forests of the Taurus mountains behind it — and its three natural harbors made it one of the busiest transshipment ports in the eastern Mediterranean. The city struck silver on the Persic weight standard, a deliberate accommodation to trade with the Persian-controlled interior rather than with the Greek Aegean world.

Alexander the Great wintered at Phaselis in 333 BC, using it as a staging point before crossing into Pamphylia. The city surrendered without resistance and was reportedly grateful for the visit.