Antioch in Pisidia is an ancient city in Asia Minor in what is now Turkey. It is one of several cities founded by Seleucid rulers named Antiochus and named after them.

Since the boundaries of the Pisidia landscape were drawn differently over time, Antioch did not belong to Pisidia for a time. At the time of the New Testament it belonged to Phrygia, the Αντιόχεια τὴν Πισιδίαν used in the Acts of the Apostles (13:14) should best be rendered with "Antioch at Pisidia".

The Pisidic Antioch was laid out with settlers from magnesia on a strategically favorable place near today's Yalvaç. After the establishment of the Roman province of Galatia, the city became 25 BC. Again founded as a veterans colony with the name Colonia Caesarea Antioch. It was connected to other Augustan foundations in Asia Minor via the important military road via Sebaste. In the course of Diocletian's imperial reform, Antioch became the metropolis of the newly founded province of Pisidia.

Antioch in Pisidia quickly developed into one of the most important Roman cities in Asia Minor. As early as the 1st century AD, several senators can be found who came from Antioch.

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Cornelia Fuchs

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History of The City

The city was colonized by the Seleucid Dynasty in the Hellenistic Period (beginning of the 3rd century BC) and was given the name of the Seleucid king Antiochus. The name and the location of Antiocheia before the Hellenistic period hasn't been known. However, the Temple of Men and the Sanctuary which was located in Gemen Grove has documented the pre-classical period of Antioch. Numerous mound settlements around Antiocheia prove that the city's history dates back to the Neolithic Period. The city remained under Seleucid rule until 188 BC and passed to the kingdom of Pergamum with the peace of Apameia and since 129 BC it has been included in Roman territory.

The city, which was renamed Colonia Caesereia with the Roman Imperial Period, was granted the right to be lus Italicum (free city) and became the capital of other Roman colonies established in Pisidia. After 395 A.D, the city remained under the rule of Eastern Rome and it was destroyed by the Arab raid in 713.

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