Etenna
Coordinates: 37 ° 0 ′ 6 ″ N , 31 ° 26 ′ 57 ″ E
Etenna ( Greek Ἐτεννα ) was an ancient city in western Asia Minor, which was counted among the landscapes of Pisidia or Pamphylia . It is located at today's Sirt, north of Manavgat in the Turkish province of Antalya .
Etenna is rarely mentioned in historical sources, for example for the year 218 BC. When the city fought with 8000 hoplites on the side of the Seleucid usurper Achaios . From the 4th century BC BC and the Roman Empire (1st to 3rd century AD), the city had its own coins. In late antiquity, Etenna was the seat of a bishop; The titular diocese of Etenna of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
The archaeological remains on a hill near Sirt include the city wall, a church and rock tombs.
literature
- George Ewart Bean : Etenna (Sirt) 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 .
- George Ewart Bean: The site of Etenna . In: Klio 52 (1970), pp. 13-16.
- Gernot Lang: Classical Ancient Sites of Anatolia . Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 3833000686 , pp. 364-368 ( excerpts from Google Books ).
- Johannes Nollé : On the history of the city of Etenna in Pisidia . In: Elmar Schwertheim (Ed.): Research in Pisidia . Habelt, Bonn 1992, pp. 61–141 (Asia Minor Studies 6; not evaluated).
- Peter Weiß : Etenna. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 .
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Remarks
- ↑ Polybios 5, 73, 3 ( English translation ).