Selinus Ancient City Holiday Travel Guide

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October 16, 2021

Located on a cape called Kale Tepe in the Pamphylia region, on the mountainous Cilicia coast, to the south of where the stream of the same name flows into the sea, the city is located 3 km southwest of today’s Gazipaşa and 40 km southeast of Alanya. It was named as the western border of Pirindu King Appuasu (557/6 BC) and is an important port city providing the sea connection to Cyprus. WORK.

After the death of Roman Emperor Trajan in Selinus on his way back from the Parther Expedition in 117, the city changed its name to Trajanopolis. Emperor Valirian’s A.D. After his imprisonment in 260, it was occupied by King Sapur I. It is also counted among the Isaura cities in Hierocles. I. It was clearly worn out by raids from Isaura around A.D. 450.

In order to protect against other attacks, a church was built in sacred Thekla over the entrance of the castle on the hill. The settlement, which is on a high island, descends to the sea in the rocky south. The pre-Roman settlement was probably on the southwestern edge, near the rocky headland. During the early Roman period, it expanded towards the beach plain across the winding Musa Stream (Selinus Potamos).

The change of the stream bed in small areas many times eroded the Roman period city area in sections. It is possible to see the ruins of a two-room bath with a barrel vault where the Selinus (Hacımusa) Stream flows into the sea. Although the columns of the seaside agora have disappeared, traces of stylobates can be seen.

It is possible to see the ruins of a two-room bath with a barrel vault where the Selinus (Hacımusa) Stream flows into the sea. Although the columns of the seaside agora have disappeared, traces of stylobates can be seen. When you go east from the agora, you come across a building (church) with an apse. It is highly likely that this structure was built on an old temple. There is a monumental building to the east of the church.

It is the only Islamic structure in the city and the area around the entrance gate is decorated with Seljuk Period motifs. It is thought that these ruins belong to a mansion. The tomb structures in the city’s necropolis are monumental tombs with arches and barrel vaults, and they reveal the burial customs of the Cilicia Region in the most beautiful way. Some of the city’s aqueducts have survived to the present day.

Roman Emperor Trajan died in this city while returning from the Parthian expedition and his ashes were taken to Rome.

The ruins date back to the Roman, Byzantine and Medieval Periods. The structures, streets, houses and cisterns that have survived to this day partially date back to the Early Ottoman period. In the plain, between the mountains and the stream, there is a large bath, an odeion and a large area from the Roman period. The financial source of the new buildings must have come from the imperial palace.

However, apart from a small necropolis, only an Aquaduct (aqueduct), a theater and a basilica remain. Although the buildings in the square today belong to the Seljuk period, the marble spolia pieces indicate that a monumental building in the Corinthian order stood there. To the southwest of the ruins, on the edge of the imperial necropolis, there is a three-naved basilica from the Early Byzantine period.

Numerous imperial period tomb houses, some with inscriptions on their doors, are located irregularly in the tea bed. There is a small church from the middle Byzantine period in the necropolis.

At the top of the rocky hill is a castle whose current state probably dates back to the early Ottoman period.

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