ancient Pisidia
Pisidia (; grc-gre, Πισιδία, ; tr, Pisidya) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Ant ...
inhabited during
Hellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
,
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
, and
Byzantine
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times.
Its site is located near Karaot, in Asiatic Turkey.
From Smithsonian Magazine, June 2024:
"Founded during the Hellenistic period, iaotherwise remains a mystery. 'All the ancient sources are silent about Sia, as if it never existed,' mitIsin founder of Equinox Travelsaid. 'Arrian and other historians talk about wars, roads and trade in Pisidia—but not one mentions this name.'
"Yet Sia undoubtedly grew into an important polis. Immense blocks of stone from Hellenistic and Roman structures were strewn across the forest floor, possibly toppled by an earthquake, and several intact walls rose around them."
The article notes that the only evidence that exists of the city's name is a temple
lintel
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inscription, "HO DEMOS HO SIENOI": "The people of Sia."