Need help again naming an apartment complex

Remember back in September I asked for your help in naming an apartment complex? well....I've hooked up with another builder who has asked me to name his future project.
This one is in YALIKAVAK, foreigners have a hard time rolling that off their tongues, so, I dont want anything with Yalikavak in it.
Last time I had some great suggestions, here is the thread in case you want to refresh your memory.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/453062/
This complex has a sea view also, and is on a slight hill....
One of their projects is called MYNDOS HILLS, do we want to keep the ancinet name theme?

help me out with some ideas.......

Here is a brief history of Yalikavak

Yalikavak lies at the north-west corner of the Bodrum Peninsula, 17 km or 10 miles from Bodrum and used to be a fishing and sponge divers village. The permanent inhabitants of Yalikavak number around 6, 800 people. This fertile coastal region is ideal for sailing and all water sports and attracts many foreign yachts to the harbour that once sheltered mainly fishing boats.Yalikavak is renown for superb sunsets and its unspoilt shoreline and sparkling clean sea is one of the few remaining abodes of the endangered “Monachus Monachus” mediterranean seals and therefore a protected area.
The gilt head bream and red mullet served in the town’s waterside restaurants are a local speciality.The historic sites such as Sandima, Pasanda (Geriþ), Kandiba and Termil (Dirmil/Gökçebel) attract visitors from all over. Archaeological excavations have established that human habitation in the region began near the end of the second millennium B.C., and artefacts show that the area was inhabited in the Carian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman eras. Yalikavak is famous for the numerous windmills found in the vicinity.The winds that until recently turned the vanes of these working windmills, now fill the sails of boats and windsurfs. Another “typical” feature found in abundance here are domed water cisterns which, in the past, were used in times of drought and are now being adapted for artistic and cultural uses.

hmmmm, maybe something about the famous windmills??? I'll try to find a photo of them

the windmills

and another

Pebble, are the windmills near where the project is to be located? If so, maybe Windmill Point? With the sea view and slight hill I like the idea of the name being "Something" Point. But that's just my humble opinion :-)

-Julie

Pebble: I was thinking "Windmill Bay" or "Windmill Harbour."

I'm not too creative. : )

I was also thinking of a local name here that I'm quite fond of: Seabright.

Rhonda

Windmill Peninsula? Windmill Point?

La Mancha's Retreat
Villa La Mancha
Casa Quixote

Windmills just always make me think of Don Quixote de La Mancha

I love Casa Quixote! Would most people be savvy to realize the connection or even pronounce it, though? La Mancha's Retreat or maybe even La Mancha's Point would be cool.

Archaeological excavations theme:

Pebble Point, Sunset Pebbles, The Pebbles...
(well isn't Pebble Beach famous?)

Hi guys, thanks for the suggestions, I am keeping a list now.
I'm not sure about using my name, woulnt that be very vain of me to even suggest it??? lol
I mean, I would love to have my name on a complex.....but it would be narcissistic, wouldnt it?

I liked the windmill theme, but then remembered that they had one proje called windmill something, and it never got off the ground cause they coulnt get the permits or something, so i dont want to jinx it.

seabright is good, and I just though of sea breeze...

I also like Bay and harbour in the name...

I think the Don Quixote de La Mancha theme may go over everyone's head, especially the turks..lol

geeeesssss, now another developer has asked me to name another project, this is a comple of 10 detache luxury villas....
for this site, i would like to icorporate someting about alexander the great, you know, like alexander's retreat, or folly, or something like that
any ideas....

Pebble Point. Hmmmm. I'd use Windmill somewhere if you can, for it's a familiar site there and the landmarks would help people remember the name.

Crystal Bay
Crystal Waters
Crystal Cove
Crystal Beach
Crystal Harbor

Well! I love crystals...and the sparkling water make me think of crystals!
Jo

Well, just re-read your descriptions, I'd think you'd want to play on it's best feature...

Sunset Cove
Sunset Bay
Sunset Breeze
Sunset Sails
...etc

I would imagine that no matter what you name it, advertising media will go with it, and incorporate the landmarks and surrounding area. Pebble, I didn't even realize that was your real name, lol. I really was thinking 'Pebble Beach' and how famous the name is--so no, not pretentious at all :) Some names, like "The Cloisters" just sound so unique and prestigious, which is why I like "'The Pebbles". It's funny but even pebbles can be made to look like scattered jewels, they're just not pretentious.

Who is buying these? An international crowd or just the Turks?

Sorry, but I can't remember Alex the Great, lol. Tell us a story, why do you think of it?

The peninsula is being inundate by foreigners buying property, summer homes and for investment. Just from last year, prices have gone up a good 30-40 %.......so, if those people were to sell, they would get a 40% return on their investment, or something like that....
I hadnt thought of crystal, but that is a good one!
sunset is good on too.

here is a brief history of bodrum, i am just copying it from a site about bodrum. but just for your information, my office is less than a stones throw fom the myndos gate, in fact when driving to my office, i come the back way, it is a dirt road that is littered with marble colums and ruins. in fact, i drive thru the the myndos gates, and if i am not careful, there is one area in particular that has some marble jutting out that i hit with y car.....one of these days i will take a photo of the gate and the ruins.
just own the lane, there is a hoel that has incorported the ruins in their decor, like their pool has ancient marble colums in it, and the bar is a slab of marble from a tomb, and seating areas are marble slabs from the ruins.....

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Heredotus, known as the father of history, was born
in Bodrum in 484 BC.- and he said that Bodrum had
been founded by the Dorians. The next settlers were Carians and Lelegians. In the 6'th. century BC., the region came under Persian rule. Its most brilliant period was around 353. BC. when it was the capital of the Satrap of Caria (In this century it was famous for its trade, sailing and boatbuilding.) Artemisia who was a warrior-woman played a significant role in the protection of the Asian Union and she achieved fame by adopting a
stance against Rhodes as the Admiral of the Carian
fleet in 480 BC.

Only some parts of the city walls remained until today. An important part of the town wall was the Myndos Gate where the soldiers of Alexander (*the great*) had a hard time to come into the town of Halicarnassus in 333 BC. After they captured the city they destroyed all buildings except the Mausoleum, which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

According to Arrianus, who describes this gate and and the siege of Alexander the Great in 334, this gate had originally three towers (that's why it was described as 'Tripollion'). It was also mentioned that in front of the gate was a ditch of 8 meters depth and 15 meters long. The middle part of the gate is totally destroyed now but ruins from the two other parts still exist and consist of huge and heavy square stones.
Tombs were found here and opened by Newton in the last century. They dated back to Hellenistic and Roman times and were made from burned clay

When Alexander the Great in the autumn of 334 BC came to Halicarnassus, he had his headquarters somewhere near here. His first attack was towards the Milas gate, which does not exist anymore, but he couldn't succeed. On the Halicarnassus side were fighting the Persian generals Oronbates and Memnon from Rhodos. After a couple of days he tried with the Myndos gate. But again there was much resistance. Then he built a wooden bridge over the 8 m. ditch, packed some of his Macedonian soldiers into wooden towers and carried them close to the gate, but the people of Halicarnassus came out and tried to burn those towers and started fighting, the bridge collapsed after a while and there was a big panic on both sides. Despite the fact that many of their own warriors outside were killed, the Halicarnassus allies Memnon and Oronbates closed the gate, went to the castle and from the harbour they sailed to Kos.
Alexander the Great conquered the town then and destroyed the whole place, only the mausoleum he didn't touch, and then he proceeded southwards to Phrygia.
Here - as nearly everywhere in Turkey Archaeologists expect to find more remains underneath the rubble of 17 centuries
unquote

Milas Harbour

I always hated those catchy names like "whispering pines"

how do you say "radiation leak" in Turkey?

lol

Glowing Waters? ;)

Has a sea view...on a hill.....
SeaView Heights

For the second one...
Alexander's Abode / Abode Alexander / Alexander Niche /Niche Alexander(niche meaning 'place')

This message was edited Mar 11, 2005 4:23 PM

"I always hated those catchy names like "whispering pines" "

No, catchy names are like "The Stumble Inn." Pebble is looking for descriptive / defining / memorable names that, if you're not careful, can end up just being so flowery and vague that they can name a million places. "Whispering Pines" gets about 200,000 hits on Google. Ick.

"Radiation Leak Vista" doesn't get a single hit. Hmm.

Kinda like just about any place in the US with the name "estates" is likely to be a trailer park?

How about Ruby Coast - The area sound special - like a jewel--A special find.

lol on the radiation leak.....we're kinda sensitive here on the radiation leak, remeber whe chernobyl had a melt down, the fall out from it tainted the northern coast of turkey which is the tea growig region, for years they refered to any tea as chernobyl tea, like when you offered tea the question was asked is his chernbyl tea or imported....of course before they new the effects of it, everone drank chernobyl tea, including me....

still strugling with the name issue, i like he usage of heights in it....
and i like coast.....
will keep you posted

lol i just re-read the post, cause i have to email the one contractor name ideas, i am including pebble beach, but in the middle, maybe he wont catch it..lol
i had to laugh when i saw stumble inn, that really tickled my funny bone....

Hi
How about:
Yali Windmills
Windmill Bay
Coastal Windmill Bay

Linda