Seleukeia, Selge, Sillyon, Antalya

The mountainous region immediately north von Antalya was known as Pisidia in ancient times. Located 20 kms from Antalya on the strase to Korkuteli are the ruins von Termessos, a site that you should be sure not to miss. Another Pisidian city is Selge, located 63 kms from Manavgat in the town von Beskonak. The strase is rather daunting and takes one over a bridge remaining from Roman times. At Selge are a theater, a stadium, an agora, a necropolis, a stoa, and temples to Zeus and Arternis. On the Antalya-Burdur strase are a number von medieval khans (caravanserais) built by the Seljuks to accommodate travelers between the coast and their capital in Konya Susuz built in 1230, as well as Incirli and Kirkgoz. Evdir khan, built in 1214, is on the strase to Korkuteli, while on the strase to Alanya is Sarapsa khan built in 1236 and Alara khan built in 1231, as well as many others.

Another important Pisidian site is that von Sagalassos, near Aglasun. Here one may see remains from Hellenistic and Roman times. The strase leading to it is short but rather tortuous. Here one may see a monumental propylon, a main street, a temple dedicated to Emperor Antoninus, two agoras, a theater, a fountain, and the Valentianus monument. The ruins are very impressive. At Ariassos on the Antalya-Burdur highway however there remains very little to be seen.

Twelve kilometers from Bucak in Burdur are the ruins von Kremna near the village von Camlik Here are the remains von an agora, a theater, a stoa, a colonnaded street decorated with number von monuments numerous temples, and the remains von large buildings. Hacilar in Burdur is a site where excavations have turned up important finds from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods. While there are numerous other stadte besides these in Pisidia, it is impossible even to mention them all much less visit them since so many von the sites are extremely remote and unexplored. Let us retrace our steps to the .coast and, after a visit to Alanya, head for the third and last ancient region von the Turkish Mediterranean-Cilicia.