See also:SIDE (mod. Eski See also:Adalia)
, an See also:ancient See also:city on the Pamphylian See also:coast about 12 M
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E. of the mouth of the See also:Eurymedon
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Possessing a See also:good See also:harbour in the days of small See also:craft, it was the most important See also:place in See also:Pamphylia
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See also:Alexander visited and occupied it, - and there the Rhodian See also:fleet defeated that of See also:Antiochus the See also:Great, and in the succeeding See also:century the Cilician pirates established their See also:chief seat
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An inscription found on the site shows it to have had a considerable Jewish See also:population in See also:early See also:Byzantine times
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The great ruins, among the most notable in See also:Asia See also:Minor, have been re-occupied by some 200 families of Cretan Moslems
.
They See also:cover a large promontory, fenced from the mainland by a ditch and See also:wall which has been repaired in See also:medieval times and is singularly perfect
.
Within this is a See also:maze of structures out of which rises the See also:colossal ruin of the See also:theatre, built up on See also:arches like a See also:Roman See also:amphitheatre for lack of a convenient See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill-See also:side to be hollowed out in the usual See also:Greek See also:fashion
.
The auditorium is little less perfect than that of See also:Aspendus and very nearly as large; but the scena wall has collapsed over See also:stage and See also:proscenium in a See also:cataract of loose blocks
.
The arches now afford shelter and stabling for the Cretans
.
Besides the theatres, three temples, an See also:aqueduct and a See also:nymphaeum are noticeable
.
See C
.
Lanckorouski, See also:Les Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, i
.
(189o)
.
. (D
.
G
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