Yalvac, a boondocks of Isparta city,
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is alms a admirable age-old website to the history lovers today.
It is no agnosticism that archaeologist Mehmet Taslialan has played a abundant role in bringing the city-limits to the daylight. He has been accustomed out excavations for about 20 years as the administrator of Yalvac museum.
Today, one can acquisition him at the website in Yalvac while authoritative excavations, or at the building in his apprehensive appointment accomplishing the paperwork, with a saturated activity and an ever-welcoming smile on his face, as if he is in the aboriginal canicule of his career. For a aboriginal timer ( for you may consistently ambition to go there again, accepting apparent it already ) it would be a abundant joy to accept to the belief of the age-old city-limits from him or at atomic to apprehend from his book (*).
Yalvac Museum
Yalvac Museum
Aquaducts
Aquaducts in Psidian Antiock The charcoal of Antioch are absolutely advance out and crave at atomic a two hour appointment for a able touring.
First time company is consistently afraid to acquisition the charcoal so abundant complete and able-bodied preserved.
Especially the highlights of the city; the theatre, the temples of the God Men, and of Augustus and St.Paul's abbey bang him most.
There had in fact been some seventeen cities in age-old Anatolia with the aforementioned appellation of Antioch, for it was a frequently acclimated claimed name by the Seleucids who accustomed abounding colonies in Anatolia such as this one which they alleged afterwards their own rulers. One should not mix the Antioch on the Orontes with the Antioch in Psidia though, the above getting far down on the Syrian bound and alleged Antakya or Hatay now.
In his book Taslialan mentions the archaeologists W. Ramsay and D. M. Robinson to burrow the website in the years of 1913-14 and 1924 for the aboriginal time. " The aboriginal excavations were agitated out actuality by W. Ramsay and D. M. Robinson, absolute that there had been a adjustment actuality aback the neolithic age. According to accounting sources and archaeological finds the city-limits was founded by Antioch I in 280 BC.
The city-limits proper, or polis, covers an breadth of 14 sq km, but the acreage which belonged to it continued from Sultan Dagi to the southern bank of Lake Egirdir, and southwest as far as Gelendost.It stood at a alliance of two basic anchorage addition from west to east and from arctic to south, and this cardinal accent accumulated with its abundant acreage meant that it was an important adjustment in the arena for abounding centuries." (*)
The charcoal of Antioch are absolutely advance out and crave at atomic a two hour appointment for a able touring.
First time company is consistently afraid to acquisition the charcoal so abundant complete and able-bodied preserved.
Especially the highlights of the city; the theatre, the temples of the God Men, and of Augustus and St.Paul's abbey bang him most.
There had in fact been some seventeen cities in age-old Anatolia with the aforementioned appellation of Antioch, for it was a frequently acclimated claimed name by the Seleucids who accustomed abounding colonies in Anatolia such as this one which they alleged afterwards their own rulers. One should not mix the Antioch on the Orontes with the Antioch in Psidia though, the above getting far down on the Syrian bound and alleged Antakya or Hatay now.
In his book Taslialan mentions the archaeologists W. Ramsay and D. M. Robinson to burrow the website in the years of 1913-14 and 1924 for the aboriginal time. " The aboriginal excavations were agitated out actuality by W. Ramsay and D. M. Robinson, absolute that there had been a adjustment actuality aback the neolithic age. According to accounting sources and archaeological finds the city-limits was founded by Antioch I in 280 BC.
The city-limits proper, or polis, covers an breadth of 14 sq km, but the acreage which belonged to it continued from Sultan Dagi to the southern bank of Lake Egirdir, and southwest as far as Gelendost.It stood at a alliance of two basic anchorage addition from west to east and from arctic to south, and this cardinal accent accumulated with its abundant acreage meant that it was an important adjustment in the arena for abounding centuries." (*)
The heydays of the city-limits began with the advertisement of Antioch to be the aggressive antecedents of Rome in 25. It was the additional Roman basic in Anatolia by the Emperor Augustus, and three thousand veterans from Rome were brought to achieve here. Interestingly enough, the attestation of the Emperor Augustus accounting by himself anon afore his afterlife was apparent actuality a part of the bits of the propylon in which the Emperor told about his achievements during his lifetime.
St. Paul's Church
The temple of Augustus is partially unearthed today and one can calmly see the admirable bouldered foundations below it. The charcoal of the frieze with balderdash arch motifs all fabricated in altered styles are account noticing. Formerly, there is believed to be a temple of the Anatolian moon God Men here.
As already Taslialan had explained if he attentive accompanied one of my groups, the theatre was addition absorbing anatomy in the site;the alone of its affectionate so far known, and maybe the aboriginal one anytime fabricated in the history, in that there was complete a 200 anxiety continued adit below the admirers seats of the theatre, the cavea, which was fabricated in the Roman times out of call to enlarge the theatre afterwards acid the basic avenue.
The theatre is aswell associated with an accident important in the development of Christianity in Anatolia. Thecla, one of the ancient believers of Christianity, follows him actuality to Antioch from Iconium ( Konya ) afterwards she was adapted by St. Paul there and was befuddled to agrarian beasts here.. A lion, as apocrypha has it, defends her adjoin them and her activity is saved. This is believed to accept taken abode in this theatre.
St. Paul's Baptisterium
St.Paul's Baptisterium now
in the muesum What moves all Christians advancing actuality is, of course, St. Paul's church. St. Paul is accepted to accept appear to Antioch with Barnabas in the 1st aeon AD and chose it as a centre for his missionary activities. His aboriginal address to the aggregation of a abbey was accustomed here. Later, the aboriginal and better abbey in Anatolia committed to St. Paul was complete on this site. This abbey and the charcoal of the abbey below it can still be apparent today. It was actuality for the aboriginal time that
St. Paul anticipation of traveling aback to the gentiles, afterwards he was un welcomingly advised and beatific abroad by the jews.
