Marmaris was a small seaport town of Caria, one of the old Aegean kingdoms, and it was situaeted on the crossroads to Anatolia, Rhodes and Egypt. Its current name is claimed to come from Mamalos. This region, where Carians lived under the Lidian hegemony in the 6th century BC, was conquered by Alexander the Great in 334 BC. Marmaris and its region came under the Roman hegemony in 163 BC, and they remained in the Byzantine territory after the Roman Empires division in to two parts.

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