Antioch in Pisidia
Coordinates: 38 ° 18 ′ 22 " N , 31 ° 11 ′ 20.7" E
Antioch in Pisidia ( Greek Antiochia , Αντιόχεια τὴς Πισιδίας; Latin Antiochia ad Pisidiam , also Antiochia Caesarea or Colonia Caesarea ) is an ancient city in Asia Minor in today's Turkey . It is one of several cities that were founded by Seleucid rulers with the name Antiochus and named after themselves.
As the boundaries of the Pisidia landscape were drawn differently over time, Antioch did not belong to Pisidia for a time. At the time of the New Testament it belonged to Phrygia, the Αντιόχεια τὴν Πισιδίαν used in the Acts of the Apostles (13:14) should best be rendered with "Antioch at Pisidia".
The Pisidic Antioch was laid out with settlers from Magnesia on a strategically favorable place near today's Yalvaç . After the establishment of the Roman province of Galatia , the city became 25 BC. Again founded as a veterans colony with the name Colonia Caesarea Antioch . It was connected to other Augustan foundations in Asia Minor via the important military road via Sebaste . In the course of Diocletian's imperial reform , Antioch became the metropolis of the newly founded province of Pisidia .
Antioch in Pisidia quickly developed into one of the most important Roman cities in Asia Minor. As early as the 1st century AD, several senators can be identified who came from Antioch.
The Eastern Roman / Byzantine poet George of Pisidia was born here.
Excavations in Antioch have uncovered a theater, a thermal bath, fountains, a temple of Augustus and an aqueduct. The museum in Yalvac houses finds from Antioch and the early history of the landscape.
Antioch is the end of the Paulusweg , a hiking and pilgrimage route that begins in Perge near Antalya .
literature
- Maurice A. Byrne, Guy Labarre: Nouvelles inscriptions d'Antioche de Pisidie d'après les Note-books de WMRamsay . Habelt, Bonn, 2006 ( inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , vol. 67), ISBN 3-7749-3404-5
- Gustav Hirschfeld : Antiocheia 15 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2446.
- Stephen Mitchell, Marc Waelkens: Pisidian Antioch. The site and its monuments . Duckworth, London 1998, ISBN 0-7156-2860-7 .
- Actes du Ier Congrès international sur Antioche de Pisidie . Paris 2002, ISBN 2-911971-04-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History, culture, nature in Antalya and the western Mediterranean area , BAKA Development Agency of the Western Mediterranean Region 2012, ISBN 978-605-86397-2-0