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:
- 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
- Gustav Hirschfeld: Antiocheia 15. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band I,2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 2446.
- Stephen Mitchell, Marc Waelkens: Pisidian Antioch. The site and its monuments. Duckworth, London 1998
- https://www.bibleplaces.com/pisidian_antioch/
