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Side, ancient Pamphylia's largest port, is situated on a
small peninsula extending north-south into the sea.
Strabo and Arrianos both
record that Side was settled from Kyme, city in Aeolia,
a region of western Anatolia. Most probably, this
colonization occurred in the seventh century B.C.
According to Arrianos, when settlers from Kyme came to
Side, they could not understand the dialect. After a
short while, the influence of this indigenous tongue was
so great that the newcomers forgot their native Greek
and started using the language of Side. Excavations have
revealed several inscriptions written in this language.
The inscriptions, dating from the third and second
centuries B.C., remain undeciphered, but testify that
the local language was still use several centuries after
colonization. Another object found in Side excavations,
a basalt column base from the seventh century B.C. and
attributable to the Neo Hittites, provides other
evidence of the site's early history. The word "side" is
Anatolian in origin and means pomegranate.
Next to no information exists concerning Side under
Lydian and Persian sovereignty. Nevertheless, the fact
that Side minted its own coins during the fifth century
B.C. while under Persian dominion, shows that it still
possessed a great measure of independence.
In 333 A.D., despite its
strong land and sea walls, Side surrendered to Alexander
the Great without a fight.
For a long period following
the death of Alexander, Side came under the dominion of
the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires, and in 190 B.C.
witnessed a great naval battle. This encounter took
place between the fleet of Rhodes, acting with the
support of Rome and Pergamum, and the fleet of Antiochos
III, the king of Syria, under the command of the famous
Carthaginian Hannibal. Side took the side of Hannibal,
but the Rhodian forces carried the day.
Aspendos, located beside
the river Eurymedon (Köprüçay), is renowned throughout
the world for its magnificent ancient amphitheatre.
According to Greek legend, the city was founded by
Argive colonists who, under the leadership of the hero
Mopsos, came to Pamphylia after the Trojan War. Aspendos
was one of the first cities in the region to strike
coinage under its own name. On these silver staters
dated to the fifth and fourth century B.C., however, the
name of the city is written es Estwediiys in the local
script. A late eighth century B.C. bilingual inscription
carved in both Hittite hieroglyphs and the Phoenician
alphabet discovered in the 1947 excavation of Karatepe
near Adana, states that Asitawada, the king of Danunum
(Adana), founded a city called Azitawadda, a derivation
of his own name, and that he was a member of the Muksas,
or Mopsus, dynasty. The striking similarity between the
names "Estwediiys" and "azitawaddi" suggests the
possibility that Aspendos was the city this king founded.
Aspendos did not play an
important role in antiquity as a political force. Its
political history during the colonization period
corresponded to the currents of the Pamphylian region.
Within this trend, after the colonial period, it
remained for a time under Lycian hegemony. In 546 B.C.
it came under Persian domination. The face that the city
continued to mint coins in its own name, however,
indicates that it had a great deal of freedom even under
the Persians
This cultural and natural
excursion visits the beautiful waterfall at Kurşunlu,
visit a shoppingcentre, the well preserved ampitheatre
in Aspendos, the temple of Apollo and the historical
town of Side
Including :
Transfer from hotel
with Air-Conditioned bus + Lunch , Insurance , Guidance
Avaliable day :
Every day
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