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Selinus (Cilicia)

Archaeological site in Turkey

Selinus (Cilicia)
Summary

Archaeological site in Turkey

Map of the ancient Trajanopolis from an Admiralty Chart of 1812

Selinus or Selinous (; ; ) was a port-town on the west coast of Rough Cilicia and later of Isauria, at the mouth of a small river of the same name, now called Musa Çay. It is located west of the modern city of Gazipaşa in Turkey.

History

In 557 BC, the Neo-Babylonian king Neriglissar captured Sallunê, that is Selinus, during his campaign against the kingdom of Pirindu. Before returning to Babylon, Neriglissar started fires from the pass of Sallunê to the border of Lydia.

Roman period

Selinus is memorable in history as the place in which Emperor Trajan is said by some authors to have died in 117 AD. After that event, the place for a time bore the name of Trajanopolis or Traianopolis ({{script|Grek|Τραϊανούπολις}}), but its bishops afterwards are called bishops of Selinus. Basil of Seleucia describes the place as reduced to a state of insignificance in his time though it had once been a great commercial town.

The site

Selinus was situated on a precipitous rock, surrounded on almost every side by the sea, by which position it was rendered almost impregnable. The whole of the rock, however, was not included in the ancient line of fortifications. Inside the walls there still are many traces of houses, but on the outside and between the foot of the hill and the river, the remains of some large buildings are yet standing, which appear to be a mausoleum, an agora, a theatre, an aqueduct and some tombs. No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

References

Sources

References

  1. {{Cite Barrington. 66
  2. ''[[Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax]]''; {{Cite Livy. 33.20
  3. {{Cite Strabo. xiv. p. 682
  4. {{Cite Ptolemy. 5.8.2, 8.17.42
  5. {{Cite Pliny. 5.22
  6. {{Cite Barrington. 66
  7. {{Cite DARE. 21488
  8. {{Cite Dio. 68.33
  9. {{Cite Hierocles. p. 709
  10. [[Basil of Seleucia]], ''Vita S. Theclae'', 2.17.
  11. ''[[Stadiasmus Maris Magni]]'' §§ 203, 204; [[Lucan]] 8.260; ''Chron. Paschale'', p. 253.
  12. "Selinus (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
  13. (1817). "Karamania, Or A Brief Description Of The South Coast Of Asia Minor". R. Hunter.
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