Trebenna
Coordinates: 36 ° 52 ' N , 30 ° 29' E
Trebenna is an ancient city in Asia Minor landscape Lycia , on the border with Pamphylia , 22 km west-southwest of Antalya ( Turkey ) at today Çağlarca.
Trebenna is not mentioned by any ancient writer. The name is only known through coins and inscriptions . The age of the city probably goes back to classical times. Trebenna has been a member of the Lycian League since the Hellenistic period, a Roman titular colony in the later imperial period and a bishopric in the 5th century. In late antiquity the city belonged to the province of Pamphylia . Coins are only from the time of Gordian III. known.
The ruins of the city lie on a small hill and are surrounded by an early Byzantine defensive wall. Numerous inscriptions and sarcophagi are built into the wall as spoilage . In the urban area there are remains of Roman baths and an early Byzantine basilica . Above the city is an acropolis , which was developed as a fortification in the Middle Byzantine period , and a Middle Byzantine one-room church nearby. The remains of the ancient city can be reached from Antalya by car, first on good roads, then poorly paved roads. The rest of the route to access is only possible on foot. From the Acropolis you have a beautiful view of Antalya and the Mediterranean Sea.
literature
- George Ewart Bean : Trebenna 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 .
- Nevzat Çevik, Engin Akyürek, Burhan Varkıvanç (ed.): Trebenna. Tarihi Arkeolojisi ve Doğası. Its History, Archeology and Natural Environment . Antalya 2005. ISBN 9-7570-7828-X
- Nevzat Çevik, İsa Kızgut, Süleyman Bulut: 1997–2006 Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantıları Bknz.
- Nevzat Çevik, Burhan Varkıvanç, Süleyman Bulut, İsa Kızgut: Trebenna: an almost forgotten city on the Lycian-Pamphylian-Pisidian border area. In: Antike Welt 2004-1, 41-49.
- Nevzat Çevik, Burhan Varkıvanç: An evaluation of the Roman rural baths of Lycia in the light of two new examples from Trebenna and Typallia. Adalya VII 2004, 223-249.
- Nevzat Çevik, Burhan İplikçioğlu: News about the Felsostotheken in Trebenna. In: Epigraphica Anatolica 35, 2003, 147-156.
- Nevzat Çevik: Yuvarlak Kaya Ostothekleri: Trebenna'da Bulunan Yeni Bir Mezar Tipi ve Onun Işığında Benzeri Çukurların Yeniden İrdelenmesi. (Kapsamlı İngilizce Özetle), Adalya II, 1998, 127–150.
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Friedrich Hild : Lykien and Pamphylien . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004 ( Tabula Imperii Byzantini , 8), Part 2, pp. 892–894, ISBN 3-7001-3280-8