Antioch In Pisidia
| Antioch in Pisidia | ||
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| Country |  Turkey | |
| Ancient region | Pisidia | |
| Province | Isparta | |
| District | Yalva | |
| Contact | 38 18 '16 "North 31 11 '18 "East / 38.304575, 31.188343 | |
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Antioch in Pisidia Antioch ad or Antiocheia Pisidiam or in Latin, was an ancient city of Pisidia , the lakes in Turkey , the modern province of Antalya. She stood at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and Aegean seas and the central region of Anatolia , near the former border between Pisidia and Phrygia. Thus it is also known as Antioch in Phrygia. The site is located about 1 km north of Yalva (or Yalobatch), modern city of the province of Isparta. Antioch was situated on a hill whose highest point is 1236 m. The city was bordered to the east of the deep ravine of the river Anthius which empties into Lake Egridir (in Turkish: Eirdir Golu).
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Founded in 280 BC. BC , by Antiochus I. , son of Seleucus I. , one of the generals of Alexander the Great , who gave his name as the city of Antioch on the Orontes ( Antakya ). According to Strabo, it was founded by citizens of Magnesia on the Meander. It was refounded as a Roman colony in 19 BC. AD , under the foundations of settlements of veterans in Asia, Greece , Anatolia and Syria in particular. According to Pliny the Elder , it is the capital of the Roman province of Pisidia, Antioch named Caesarea. On the eve of the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. J.-C. , Octave finds that the East Roman unevenly urbanized, especially in the interior of Anatolia where the cities are rare. Therefore it deals, without creating new poleis (outside of Nicopolis in Epirus ), restoration and establishment of Roman colonies such as Antioch. This reflects the need to subdivide the many veterans demobilized after the battle of Actium , and in order to become hotbeds of romanization around populated cities of Roman citizens. Thus, in installing veterans of the Fifth Gallica and the Seventh Legion, Augustus created the network of settlements in Pisidia, Antioch and from 25 BC. AD.
Culture and religion
Cultural effects are indeed limited as it is observed that all the Greek supplanted the Latin from the reign of Hadrian. Nothing demonstrates either a diffusion of Roman cults, outside of worship that does not leave circles of soldiers and veterans. However, we can note the presence of an important local cult, the god Men.
The city was probably founded on the site of an ancient shrine dedicated to the Phrygian god Men, one finds there also many inscriptions , he founded several Christian communities in the heart of the Non-evangelized. Antioch was one of the first Anatolian cities to adopt Christianity. The first and largest church dedicated to St. Paul was later constructed at the location where the latter delivered his sermon.
End of Antioch and Ruins
At a campaign of conquest led by the Caliph Umayyad al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik , the city was razed in 713. Attempts were made to rebuild it, but it never regained its past splendor. She was eventually abandoned when Yalva was established in the XIII century.
Today, there remain a number of ancient ruins of the walls, an aqueduct, a small theater, but also propylaea of the acropolis, the site said Augustus Platea which was probably a temple dedicated to Augustus (or Dionysus ), the place Tiberia Platea in honor of Tiberius , near the remains of two basilicas and Byzantine ruins of a fourth century church dedicated to Saint Paul.
References
- Overview shrines, rock reliefs and inscriptions from Pisidia.
- Because of their proclamation of salvation and resurrection of Jesus, see Acts of the Apostles 13. 15-41 Proceedings, but not necessarily well received: see Acts of the Apostles 13. 42-44. It is the Jewish leaders who drove them: see Acts of the Apostles 13. 45-50
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External Links
- (En) The major regions of Asia Minor and its cities of Pisidia, Antioch Pisidia
- (En) Extracts of Acts dealing with the passage of Paul in the city.
- (En) Pictures of the ruins and landscapes of Antioch.
- (En) Pictures of the ruins and landscapes of Antioch also.
- (In) Honorary Registration in Latin of a Roman governor in the first century AD. BC in the colony of Antioch in Pisidia.
- (In) Isparta Yalva Psidia Antiokheia on Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism
- (In) Antiokheia Isparta on Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Bibliography
- Stephen Mitchell, Marc Waelkens: Pisidian Antioch. The Site and Its Monuments. Duckworth, London 1998, ISBN 0-7156-2860-7.
- Proceedings of the First International Congress on Antioch in Pisidia. Paris 2002, ISBN 2-911971-04-3.
- See also Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Antioch, Phrygia, Turkey.
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