ANTIOCH IN

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• PISIDIA

PISIDIA  , an ancient city, the remains of which, including ruins of temples, a theatre and a fine aqueduct, were found by Arundell in 1833 close to the modern Yalovach . It was situated on the lower southern slopes of the Sultan Dagh, in the Konia vilayet of Asia Minor, on the right bank of a stream, the ancient Anthius, which flows into the Hoiran Geul . It was probably founded on the site of a Phrygian sanctuary, by Seleucus Nicator, before 280 B.C. and was made a free city by the Romans in 189 B.C . It was a thoroughly Hellenized, Greek-speaking city, in the midst of a Phrygian people, with a mixed population that included many Jews . Before 6 B.C . Augustus made it a colony, with the title Caesarea, and it became the centre of civil and military administration in south Galatia, the romanization of which was progressing rapidly in the time of Claudius, A.D . 41—54, when Paul visited it (Acts xiii . 14, xiv . 21, xvi . 6, xviii . 23) . In 1097 the crusaders found rest and shelter within its walls .

The ruins are interesting, and show that

Antioch was a strongly fortified city of Hellenic and Roman type .