 In the 15th century the Ottomans utilized the city as a harbour during their rule in Anatolia.As the harbour became silted up, the city was abandoned.Due to ancient and subsequent deforestation, overgrazing (mostly by goat herds), erosion and soil degradation the ruins of the city lie some from the sea with sediments filling the plain and bare hill ridges without soils and trees, a maquis shrubland remaining.