SIDE (mod. Eski

See also:

• ADALIA (med. Antaliyah; the crusaders' Satalia)

Adalia)  , an ancient city on the Pamphylian coast about 12 M . E. of the mouth of the Eurymedon . Possessing a good harbour in the days of small craft, it was the most important place in Pamphylia . Alexander visited and occupied it, - and there the Rhodian fleet defeated that of Antiochus the Great, and in the succeeding century the Cilician pirates established their chief seat . An inscription found on the site shows it to have had a considerable Jewish population in early Byzantine times . The great ruins, among the most notable in Asia Minor, have been re-occupied by some 200 families of Cretan Moslems . They cover a large promontory, fenced from the mainland by a ditch and wall which has been repaired in medieval times and is singularly perfect . Within this is a maze of structures out of which rises the colossal ruin of the theatre, built up on arches like a Roman amphitheatre for lack of a convenient hill-side to be hollowed out in the usual Greek fashion . The auditorium is little less perfect than that of Aspendus and very nearly as large; but the scena wall has collapsed over stage and proscenium in a cataract of loose blocks . The arches now afford shelter and stabling for the Cretans . Besides the theatres, three temples, an aqueduct and a nymphaeum are noticeable . See C .

Lanckorouski,

Les Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, i . (189o) . . (D . G .