Konacık is a town in Bodrum

Bodrum

Bodrum is a port city in Muğla Province, in the southwestern Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located on the southern coast of Bodrum Peninsula, at a point that checks the entry into the Gulf of Gökova. The site was called Halicarnassus of Caria in ancient times and was famous for housing the...

 district of Muğla Province

Mugla Province

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, Turkey

Turkey

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. At 37°03′N 27°24′E the town is almost merged to Bodrum to the south east. The population of the Konacık is 10284 as of 2010. Konacık was an ancient settlement named Pedesa meaning pathway in Luwian language

Luwian language

Luwian is an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. Luwian is closely related to Hittite, and was among the languages spoken during the second and first millennia BC by population groups in central and western Anatolia and northern Syria...

 (a language spoken in Anatolia

Anatolia

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before the 10 th century BC.) Konacık was declared a seat of township in 1999.