 Overview of Perga | |
  Shown within Turkey | |
| Location | Aksu, Antalya Province, Turkey |
|---|---|
| Region | Lukka, Pamphylia |
| Coordinates | 36°57′41″N 30°51′14″E / 36.96139°N 30.85389°E |
| Type | Settlement |
| History | |
| Founded | By 1209 BC |
| Periods | Chalcolithic Age to Middle Ages |
| Cultures | Luwian, Lycian, Hittite, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Turkish |
| Associated with | Apollonius |
Perga or Perge (Hittite: Parha[a], Greek: Πέργη Perge, Turkish: Perge) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement[b] that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia.[14] It was the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, now located in Antalya Province on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Today its ruins lie 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Antalya.
It was the birthplace of the Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga, one of the most notable mathematicians of antiquity for his work on conic sections. A unique and prominent feature for a Roman city was the long central water channel in the centre of the main street which contained a series of cascading pools and which would have been remarkable even today in a semi-arid area where summer temperatures reach over 30 degrees Celsius.
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- ^ Çilingir, Sevgül (2011). Hitit Tapınak Kentleri (MSc). Ege Üniversitesi. p. 25.
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- ^ Bryce, Trevor R. (1992). "Lukka Revisited". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 51 (2): 123. doi:10.1086/373535. JSTOR 545499. S2CID 222441745.
- ^ Yakar, Jak (2014). "The Archaeology and Political Geography of the Lower Land in the Last Century of the Hittite Empire". In Çınardalı-Karaaslan, Nazlı; Aykurt, Ayşegül; Kolankaya-Bostancı, Neyir; Erbil, Yiğit H. (eds.). Anadolu Kültürlerine Bir Bakış Some Observations on Anatolian Cultures Armağan Erkanal'a Armağan Compiled in Honor of Armağan Erkanal. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları. p. 504.
- ^ Seçer, Sezer (2012). Yazılı Belgeler Işığında Lukka, Pedassa ve Walma Ülkelerinin Tarihi ve Tarihi Coğrafyası (PDF) (MSc). İstanbul Üniversitesi. p. 39.
- ^ Talloen, Peter (2015). "The Archaeology and Political Geography of the Lower Land in the Last Century of the Hittite Empire". Cult in Pisidia: Religious Practice in Southwestern Asia Minor from Alexander the Great to the Rise of Christianity. Brepols Publishers. p. 62.
- ^ Bilgin, Tayfun (2015). "The Archaeology and Political Geography of the Lower Land in the Last Century of the Hittite Empire". Officials and Administration in the Hittite World. De Gruyter. p. 23. doi:10.1515/9781501509773. ISBN 9781501509773. S2CID 166095378.
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Like Ephesus, Perge was a Greek Polis, and the seat of the governor and the financial procurator of the province of Lycia-Pamphylia.
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