Pisidia
Pisidia ( Greek Πισιδία , Latin Pisidia ) was in ancient times the name of a hard to reach area of west Taurus Mountains in southwestern Asia Minor , the geographically between the coastal plain in Antalya in the south and the lakes around Burdur extended to the north.
Pisidia bordered Lycaonia and Isauria to the east, Pamphylia and Lycia to the south, Caria to the west and Phrygia to the north . Important places were Adada , Antioch , Apollonia , Kremna , Sagalassos , Selge , Termessos and Timbriada .
The inhabitants of Pisidia, the Pisidians or Pisiders, described in ancient sources as belligerent, could not be ruled by either the Persians or Alexander the Great as mountain people with their fortified fortifications . After they were at least formally subject to the Seleucids , their territory belonged to from 188 BC. To the kingdom of Pergamon and fell in 39 BC. In Galatia . In the year 25 BC Pisidia finally became part of the Roman province of Galatia , but Roman rule was not absolute.
For the language of the inhabitants of Pisidia see Pisidic language .
literature
- Hans Rott: Monuments from Asia Minor from Pisidia, Pamphylia, Cappadocia and Lycia . Leipzig 1908. (Studies on Christian Monuments, NF 5/6)
- Barbara Flemming: Landscape history of Pamphylia, Pisidia and Lycia in the late Middle Ages . Wiesbaden 1964. (Treatises for the customer of the Orient, 35.1)
- Xavier de Planhol: De la plaine pamphylienne aux lacs pisidiens. Nomadisme et vie paysanne . Paris 1958. (Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique de l'Institut Français d'archéologie d'Istanbul, 3)
- Klaus Belke , Norbert Mersich: Phrygia and Pisidia . Vienna 1990. ( Tabula Imperii Byzantini , 7) ISBN 3-7001-1698-5
- Hartwin Brandt : History and economy of Pamphylia and Pisidia in antiquity . Bonn 1992. (Asia Minor Studies, 7) ISBN 3-7749-2554-2
- Elmar Schwertheim (Ed.): Research in Pisidia . Bonn 1992. (Asia Minor Studies, 6) ISBN 3-7749-2524-0
Coordinates: 38 ° N , 31 ° E