Adrasos

Adrasos (Άδρασός, Adrassus) is an ancient place in the Isauria landscape of Asia Minor . It is located near the village of Balabolu and is 27 km west of today's Mut ( Turkey ).

Small remains of a Roman-Byzantine settlement with walls and two church ruins have been preserved. To the north-west of the place are large necropolises with graves of various types, e.g. Some with inscriptions and reliefs, from the 4th – 6th centuries. Century AD

literature

• Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum : The necropolis of Adrassus (Balabolu) in Rough Cilicia (Isauria) . Vienna 1980. (Tituli Asiae Minoris, Erg.-Bde; 10) ISBN 3-7001-0369-7 .
• Osman Doğanay: Ermenek ve Yakın Çevresindeki Antik Yerleşim Birimleri . Istanbul 2005. ISBN 975-8867-57-1 .

Web link

• Kurt Tomaschitz: Adrasos. In: The New Pauly . (Ed .: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Manfred Landfester) Brill Online, 2013, accessed August 11, 2013

Coordinates: 36 ° 38 ′ 51.1 ″  N , 33 ° 9 ′ 26.1 ″  E