Balboura

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Coordinates: 36 ° 57 '  N , 29 ° 35'  E

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Balboura ( Greek  Βάλβουρα ) is an ancient city in Asia Minor , in northern Lycia in Turkey .

The Lycian robber Balburos was considered the mythical founder of the city . In the late Hellenistic period, Balboura belonged to a four-city alliance (Tetrapolis) under the leadership of Kibyra , who lived around 84–82 BC. Was dissolved by the Romans. The city was then a member of the Lycian League and with this became part of the province of Lycia et Pamphylia . In late antiquity the city was the seat of a bishop; The titular bishopric of Balbura of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .

The city was on two hills and a plain below. On the slopes of the two hills there was a theater, remains of which have been preserved. Some graves have also been preserved, especially sarcophagi.

literature

in chronological ascending order

  • George Ewart Bean :  Balbura (Çölkayiği) Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
  • C. Naour: Nouvelles inscriptions de Balboura . In: Ancient Society 9 (1978) 165-185.
  • Kent J. Rigsby An imperial letter at Balbura . In: American Journal of Philology 100 (1979) 401-407.
  • JJ Coulton, NP Milner, AT Reyes: Balboura survey. Onesimos and Meleager . Part 1. In: Anatolian Studies 38 (1988) 121-145. Part 2: In: Anatolian Studies 39 (1989) 41-62.
  • Lionel Bier: The lower theater at Balboura . In: Anatolian Studies 40 (1990) 69-79
  • AS Hall, JJ Coulton: A hellenistic allotment list from Balboura in the Kibyratis . In: Chiron 20 (1990) 109-153.
  • DK Money: Lions of the mountains. The sarcophagi of Balboura . In: Anatolian Studies 40 (1990) 29-54.
  • NP Milner: Victors in the Meleagria and the Balbouran élite . In: Anatolian Studies 41 (1991) 23-62.
  • CH Hallett, JJ Coulton: The east tomb and other tomb buildings at Balboura . In: Anatolian Studies 43 (1993) 41-68.
  • Lionel Bier: The upper theater at Balboura . In: Anatolian Studies 44 (1994) 27-46.
  • JJ Coulton: The fortifications of Balboura . In: Revue des études anciennes 96 (1994) 329-335.
  • Tyler Jo Smith: The Votive Reliefs from Balboura and its Environs , In: Anatolian Studies (1997) 3-49.
  • Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Friedrich Hild : Lykien und Pamphylien , Tabula Imperii Byzantini 8th Vienna 2004, pp. 477–479.
  • John J. Coulton (Ed.): The Balboura Survey and Settlement in Highland Southwest Anatolia. London 2012 (British Institute at Ankara, Monograph, 43).
    • Vol. 1: Balboura and the history of highland settlement.
    • Vol. 2: The Balboura Survey; detailed studies and catalogs.

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