Antioche de Pisidie

Antioche de Pisidie (currently Yalvaç or (Yalobatch)), is a city located on the southern face of the mountains of Anatolia, with the limit separating the province from Pisidie and Phrygie.

Foundation

Founded by Antiochos I {{er}} in 280 av. J.C, which just like gave him its name at the town of Antioche on Orontes (Antakya). According to Strabon it is based by citizens of Magnésie on the Méandre. It is refondée like Roman colony in 19 av. J. - C., within the framework of foundations of colonies of veterans in Asia, in Greece, Anatolia and Syria in particular. According to Pline Old the, it acts of the capital of the Roman province of Pisidie, named Antiochea Caesarea . The day before the Battle of Actium in 31 av. J. - C., Octave notes that the Roman East is unequally urbanized, in particular inside Anatolia where the cities are rare. It is thus devoted, without creating news Poléis (apart from Nicopolis d' Epire ), with the restoration and foundation of Roman colonies such as Antioche. That is explained by the need for parcelling out the many veterans demobilized the shortly after Actium and, with an aim of becoming hearths of romanisation around populated cities Roman citizens. Thus by installing veterans of Ve Gallica and VIIe legion, Auguste created the network of colonies in Pisidie, and with Antioche as of -25.

Culture and religion

The cultural effects in fact are limited since it is observed that everywhere the Greek supplants the Latin starting from the reign of Hadrian. Nothing testify either to a diffusion Roman worships, apart from the worships which do not leave the mediums soldiers and veterans. One can however note the presence of an important local worship, that of the god Men.

The city was probably founded on the site of an old Phrygian sanctuary dedicated to the god Men, one finds many inscriptions besides there.

The Acts of the Apostles teach us that Paul de Tarse (holy Paul) and holy Barnabé went twice to Antioche in 46 a. J. - C., but that with their first visit they were driven out by the extremely many Juif S in this city, it founds several Christian communities in the middle of the not evangelized territories. Antioche was one of the first cities of Anatolia to adopt the Christianisme. The first and the largest church dedicated to Paul saint were built later with the site where this last pronounced its sermon.

End of Antioche and ruins

At the time of a conquest campaign directed by the Caliph Omeyyade Al-Walid Ben Abd Al-Malik, the city was shaven in 713. Attempts were made to rebuild it, but it did not find its last splendor. It was finally abandoned when Yalvaç was established at the 13th century.

Nowadays, there remains a certain number of ancient ruins of the walls, an aqueduct, a small theater, but also propylées of the acropolis, the place known as Auguste Platea from where rose a temple probably devoted to Auguste (or Dionysos), the place Tiberia Platea in the honor of Tibère, and in the vicinity the remainders of two Byzantine Basilique S and the ruins of a church of the 4th century dedicated at Saint Paul.

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