Termessos
Termessos is an ancient city whose current ruins, preserved relatively well, are with 34 km in the North-West of Antalya. It acts, rather rare thing at the time, of a city located in altitude (1050 meters), on a plate between two tops of the Mounts Güllük (ancient Mount Solymos). Nowadays still, several hours of walk are necessary to reach it.
Its origins are badly known. Its first inhabitants, who are made call Solymiens , are Psidienen S which live breeding, culture of olive but also of the armed robbery what gives them an execrable reputation. When in 334 av. J. - C. Alexandre Large the raises the seat of the city which it does not manage to take by storm, it burns in reprisal the fields of olive-trees.
The city hellènise quickly with the III E and account with its apogee undoubtedly several ten thousands of inhabitants. Rome grants to him an independent statute in 70 to thank it for its alliance at the time of the war against Mithridate VI. If the city is prosperous under the Roman period the decline as from 5th century a. J. - C intervenes. when a Earthquake devastation the city which is then abandoned.
Nowadays the monuments of the hellenistic time and Roman are still visible the such theater (4200 places) or the tomb of Alcétas, an officer of Alexandre who, pursued in 319 by Antigone One-eyed the, takes refuge then commits suicide in Termessos.
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