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Aspendos, the Glossary

Aspendos or Aspendus (Pamphylian: ΕΣΤϜΕΔΥΣ; Attic: Ἄσπενδος) was an ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province of Turkey.^[1]

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Archaeological sites in Antalya Province
Greek colonies in Anatolia
Populated places in ancient Pamphylia
Serik District

Acropolis

An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense.

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Agora

The agora (ἀγορά, romanized:, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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In ancient Greece, the drachma (drachmḗ,; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states during a period of ten centuries, from the Archaic period throughout the Classical period, the Hellenistic period up to the Roman period.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Ancient history

Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.

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Antalya

Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Aspendos and Antalya are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey and Archaeological sites in Antalya Province.

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Antalya Province

Antalya Province (Antalya ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey.

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Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival

The Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival (in Turkish: Aspendos Uluslararası Opera ve Bale Festivali) has been organized in Aspendos, near Antalya, Turkey by the Turkish State Opera and Ballet directorate since 1994 with international participation by opera and ballet companies from several countries.

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Basilica

In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.

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Battle of the Eurymedon

The Battle of the Eurymedon was a double battle, taking place both on water and land, between the Delian League of Athens and her Allies, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I. It took place in either 469 or 466 BCE, in the vicinity of the mouth of the Eurymedon River (now the Köprüçay) in Pamphylia, Asia Minor.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Caravanserai

A caravanserai (or caravansary) was a roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cimon

Cimon or Kimon (Kimōn Miltiadou Lakiadēs; – 450BC) was an Athenian strategos (general and admiral) and politician.

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Citadel

A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city.

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Council of Ephesus

The Council of Ephesus was a council of Christian bishops convened in Ephesus (near present-day Selçuk in Turkey) in AD 431 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius II.

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Dalida

Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida (داليدا), was a French singer and actress, born in Egypt to Italian parents.

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Delian League

The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, founded in 478 BC under the leadership (hegemony) of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

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Denarius

The denarius (dēnāriī) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238–244), when it was gradually replaced by the antoninianus.

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Diocese

In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

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Diodorus of Aspendus

Diodorus of Aspendus (Διόδωρος ὁ Ἀσπένδιος) was a 4th century BC Pythagorean philosopher, who probably lived after the time of Plato, and must have been still alive in 104th Olympiad, for he was an acquaintance of Stratonicus the musician, who lived at the court of Ptolemy Lagi.

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Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laërtius (Διογένης Λαέρτιος) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers.

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Eurymedon Bridge (Aspendos)

The Eurymedon Bridge was a late Roman bridge over the river Eurymedon (modern Köprüçay), near Aspendos, in Pamphylia in southern Anatolia.

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Eutyches

Eutyches (Εὐτυχής; c. 380c. 456) or Eutyches of Constantinople.

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First Council of Nicaea

The First Council of Nicaea (Sýnodos tês Nikaías) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.

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Flavian of Constantinople

Flavian (Flavianus; Φλαβιανός, Phlabianos; 11 August 449), sometimes Flavian I, was Archbishop of Constantinople from 446 to 449.

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Gaius Verres

Gaius Verres (114 – 43 BC) was a Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily.

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Greco-Roman world

The Greco-Roman civilization (also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the Greeks and Romans.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Köprüçay River

Köprüçay, ancient Eurymedon (Εὐρυμέδων), is a river that is situated in Antalya Province, Turkey, and empties into the Mediterranean.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Metropolis (religious jurisdiction)

A metropolis, metropolitanate or metropolitan (arch)diocese is an episcopal see whose bishop is the metropolitan bishop or archbishop of an ecclesiastical province.

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Numismatics

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.

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Nymphaeum

A nymphaeum or nymphaion (nymphaîon), in ancient Greece and Rome, was a monument consecrated to the nymphs, especially those of springs.

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Pamphylia

Pamphylia (Παμφυλία, Pamphylía) was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (all in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey). Aspendos and Pamphylia are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey.

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Pamphylian Greek

Pamphylian was a little-attested dialect of Ancient Greek that was spoken in Pamphylia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor.

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Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War (translit) (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.

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Perga

Perga or Perge (Hittite: Parha, Πέργη Perge, Perge) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. Aspendos and Perga are ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey, Archaeological sites in Antalya Province, Greek colonies in Anatolia, Members of the Delian League, Populated places in ancient Pamphylia and world Heritage Tentative List for Turkey.

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Philostratus

Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (Φιλόστρατος; 170s – 240s AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period.

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Roman aqueduct

The Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their Republic and later Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman province

The Roman provinces (pl.) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.

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Roman Theatre of Aspendos

The Roman theater of Aspendos is a Roman theater in the ancient city of Aspendos in Turkey. Aspendos and Roman Theatre of Aspendos are Archaeological sites in Antalya Province.

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Scaenae frons

The scaenae frons is the elaborately decorated permanent architectural background of a Roman theatre stage.

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Second Council of Ephesus

The Second Council of Ephesus was a Christological church synod in 449 convened by Emperor Theodosius II under the presidency of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria.

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Second Council of Nicaea

The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the last of the first seven ecumenical councils by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.

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Seljuk dynasty

The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids (سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire." or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture in West Asia and Central Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspendos

Also known as Aspendian, Aspendos Theater, Aspendus, Primopolis.

, Stater, Suffragan bishop, Sultanate of Rum, Thrasybulus, Thucydides, Titular see, Triskelion, Turkey, Turkish State Opera and Ballet, Velarium.

Aspendos, the Glossary

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See also

Archaeological sites in Antalya Province

Greek colonies in Anatolia

Populated places in ancient Pamphylia

Serik District

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