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unusual facts about Sozopolis, Pisidia



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401 BC

Cyrus the Younger uses a quarrel with Tissaphernes over the Ionian cities as a pretext for gathering a large army and also pretends to prepare an expedition to Pisidia, in the Taurus Mountains.

Alexios II Komnenos

Kilij Arslan II invaded the empire in AD 1182, defeating the Byzantines at the Siege of Cotyaeum resulting in the Byzantine Empire losing Cotyaeum and Sozopolis.

Antheia

Antheia is also the Greek name of Ancient Sozopolis in modern Bulgaria, and another Antheia was a village which was later adopted into Patras around 1000 BC.

Cremna, Pisidia

It was first taken by Amyntas, commander of the Galatian auxiliary army of Brutus and Cassius, who became king of Galatia and Pisidia on going over to the side of Mark Antony.

İbradı

This area was once part of the antique kingdom of Pisidia, near the river Melas.

Karol Lanckoroński

In 1885-86 he organised his own exploratory mission to Pamphylia and Pisidia.

Leo of Chalcedon

The synod indicted and deposed him before being banished to Sozopolis where the locals regarded him as a saint.

Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Many copies of the text were made and carved in stone on monuments or temples throughout the Roman Empire, some of which have survived; most notably, almost a full copy, written in the original Latin and a Greek translation was preserved on a temple to Augustus in Ancyra (the Monumentum Ancyranum of Ankara, Turkey); others have been found at Apollonia and Antioch, both in Pisidia.

Sidera

Seleucia Sidera, ancient city in the northern part of Pisidia, Anatolia


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