🏛️ Apollonia-Antiochia in Pisidia
Roman settlement ruins in southwestern Anatolia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Isparta Province, southwestern Türkiye, near the town of Yalvaç
- Founded as Apollonia in the Hellenistic period; renamed Antiochia under Roman rule
- Sits at approximately 1,050 metres elevation on the Pisidia plateau
- Contains remains of temples, fortifications, and residential structures spanning multiple periods
Apollonia-Antiochia in Pisidia was a substantial urban settlement in the interior highlands of Roman Asia Minor. The site reflects successive Hellenistic, Republican Roman, and Imperial Roman occupation. Archaeological evidence indicates continuous habitation and administrative importance through at least the Byzantine period, after which the location was gradually abandoned ...