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AgoraPisidian Antioch - AugusteumPisidian Antioch - Augusteum - descriptionTo AugusteumPisidian Antioch - AugusteumPisidian Antioch - AugusteumPisidian Antioch - AugusteumPisidian Antioch - AugusteumPisidian Antioch - AugusteumAntiochia AqueductUnnamed Town

Location:

  • Türkiye, Yalvaç
  • geo:38.306236,31.189913
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Antioch of Pisidia was so called to distinguish it from the many other founded by Seleucus Nicator (301-280 BC) and called after  father Antiochus. The first inhabitants of Anticheia ad Pisidiam were the settlers moved from Magnesia on the Meander.

Sources:

  1. Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell : Discoveries in Asia Minor : I including a description of the ruins of several ancient cities, especially Antioch of Pisidia, Bentley, London 1834. -https://archive.org/details/discoveriesinasi02arun
  2. Gustav Hirschfeld: Antiocheia 15. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band I,2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 2446.
  3. Stephen Mitchell, Marc Waelkens: Pisidian Antioch. The site and its monuments. Duckworth, London 1998
  4. https://www.bibleplaces.com/pisidian_antioch/

Nearby

Antiochia Pisidiae, Byzantine Church

Byzantine church in Pisidian Antiochia

Antiocheia ad Pisidiam, Nymphaeum

Nympheum in Pisidian Amioch.


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2012-05-29. Last update by Elżbieta on 2017-12-12. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/2325 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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