In ancient geography this was the mountainous area north of Antalya with two fair-sized lakes, Karalis (Beysehir Gölü) and Limnai (Eğridir Gölü). Termessus in the south, Sagalassus (Aglasun) to the north, and Antioch of Pisidia (Yalvac) are some of the early important towns. History The area of […]
Read more →The Bithynia were a tribe that migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor and gave their name to the southwest shores of the Black Sea, the Bosphorus, and the Sea of Marmara. The most Important mountain of the area is Mt Olympus, known now as Ulu Dağ; the […]
Read more →About 56 kilometers west of Akşehir by winding mountain road is the Turkish town of Yalvaç, the place on the edge of the Antioch of Pisidia mentioned in the New Testament. The earliest written history of the city probably goes back to some time between 301 and […]
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