Datça is a district of Muğla Province in south-west Turkey, and the center town of the district. The center is situated midway through the peninsula which carries the same name as the district and the town (Datça Peninsula).

The extreme end of the western tip of the district and the peninsula, the locality called Tekir, is the location of the ancient city of Knidos. There is an ongoing debate on whether or not this location was the original site of the ancient city, a number of sources claiming that until the mid-4th century BCE, Knidos was halfway along the peninsula, near the present-day district center.

Knidos was very advanced in Science, Architecture, and Arts. Many of the famous Mathematicians, doctors and artists lived here...

For instance; Mathematician Eudoksus, Doctor Euryphon, painter Polygnotos and much more...

Seen as one of the seven wonders of the World, the architecture of ‘'The Alexander's Lantern ‘' the great ‘'Sostratos'' lived here.