Nisa (Lycia)
Coordinates: 36 ° 26 ' N , 29 ° 39' E
Nisa was an ancient city in Asia Minor landscape Lycia in the southwest of present-day Turkey .
Nisa is only mentioned in a few written sources. It's just a 2nd century BC coin. Known. In late antiquity, Nisa was the seat of a bishop; The titular diocese of Nisa in Lycia of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
Some remains of the city have been preserved in the mountains around 25 kilometers north of the port city of Kaş , including a theater, a stadium and the city wall.
literature
- George Ewart Bean : Nisa, Lycia, 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 .