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PERGA (mod. Murtana)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 142 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERGA (mod. Murtana) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Pamphylia, situated about 8 m. inland, at the junction of a small stream (See also:Sari Su) with the Cestrus. It was a centre of native influences as contrasted with the See also:Greek, which were predominant in See also:Attalia, and it was a See also:great seat of the See also:worship of " See also:Queen " See also:Artemis, here represented as a human-headed See also:cone and a purely Anatolian nature goddess. There See also:Paul and See also:Barnabas began their first See also:mission in See also:Asia See also:Minor (Acts ix. 13). A much frequented route into See also:Phrygia and the Maeander valley began at Perga, and See also:Alexander made it the starting-point of his invasion of inner Asia Minor. See also:Long the See also:metropolis of Pamphylia Secunda, it was superseded in See also:Byzantine times by its See also:port, Attalia, which became a metropolis in Io84. The extensive ruins all See also:lie in the See also:plain See also:south of the See also:Acropolis. The walls are well preserved, but of See also:late See also:Roman or Byzantine reconstruction. The lines of intersecting streets can be easily made out, and there are ruins of two sets of See also:baths, two basilicas and a See also:forum. But the most notable See also:monument is the See also:theatre, which lies outside the walls on the south-See also:west, near the See also:stadium. This is as perfect as those of See also:Myra and See also:Patara, but larger than either, and yields the See also:palm only to those of See also:Aspendus and See also:Side.

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Modern Murtana is a large See also:village, long under the dominion of the Dere Beys of the Tekke Oglu See also:family. See C. Lanckoronski, Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, vol. i. (189o); See also:Sir W. M. See also:Ramsay, See also:Church in the Roman See also:Empire (1893). (D. G.

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