Medet is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of Tavas, Denizli Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its population is 279 (2025). It is located 7 kilometers west of Tavas on the Tavas Plain, near the site of the Medet Mound and the ancient city of Apollonia Salbace. The entire village is a first-degree protected archeological site.
Name The word medet in Turkish means literally "help."
History The locality has been inhabited since the Bronze Age. During the time of Hadrian, a temple of Apollo was built (surviving to this day). The settlement issued its own coins between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE.
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