Ancient city, Lycia , southern coast of Anatolia .
Its location is now in Turkey. Ancient ruins dating from the 5th–3rd centuries BC include an acropolis, a magnificent theatre, and several rock-cut tombs that resemble wooden houses and shrines. As a prisoner on his way to Rome in the 1st century AD, St. Paul changed ships in Myra. St. Nicholas was bishop of the city in the 4th century AD. It declined in the 7th century after Arab raids.