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See also: ancient city of See also: Pamphylia, situated about 8 m. inland, at the junction of a small stream (See also: Sari Su) with the Cestrus
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It was a centre of native influences as contrasted with the See also: Greek, which were predominant in See also: Attalia, and it was a See also: great seat of the worship of " See also: Queen " See also: Artemis, here represented as a human-headed See also: cone and a purely Anatolian nature goddess
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There See also: Paul and See also: Barnabas began their first See also: mission in See also: Asia Minor (Acts ix
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A much frequented route into See also: Phrygia and the Maeander valley began at See also: Perga, and See also: Alexander made it the starting-point of his invasion of inner Asia Minor
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Long the metropolis of Pamphylia Secunda, it was superseded in
See also: Byzantine times by its See also: port, Attalia, which became a metropolis in Io84
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The extensive ruins all lie in the plain See also: south of the Acropolis
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The walls are well preserved, but of See also: late See also: Roman or Byzantine reconstruction
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The lines of intersecting streets can be easily made out, and there are ruins of two sets of See also: baths, two basilicas and a forum
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But the most notable monument is the theatre, which lies outside the walls on the south-west, near the See also: stadium
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This is as perfect as those of See also: Myra and See also: Patara, but larger than either, and yields the palm only to those of Aspendus and See also: Side
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See also: Modern Murtana is a large See also: village, long under the dominion of the Dere Beys of the Tekke Oglu See also: family
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See C . Lanckoronski, Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, vol. i . (189o); See also: Sir W
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See also: Ramsay, See also: Church in the Roman
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