Perge
Sign in to savethumb|Plan of Perge thumb|The agora thumb|The stadium Perga or Perge (Hittite: Parha, Perge, ) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. 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 east of Antalya.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Perga
- Ancient site.native_name
- (Hittite)Πέργη Perge
- Ancient site.image
- Perge city overview.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Overview of Perga
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.map_size
- 270
- Ancient site.location
- Aksu, Antalya, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- LukkaPamphylia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.built
- By 1209 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Chalcolithic Age to Middle Ages
- Ancient site.occupants
- Apollonius
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- Perge city overview.jpg
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- Perge
- inception
- 1000-00-00
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- History
- Early Bronze
- Late Bronze
- Iron Age
- City monuments
- Notable people
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- Notes
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thumb|Plan of Perge thumb|The agora thumb|The stadium Perga or Perge (Hittite: Parha, Perge, ) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. 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 east of Antalya.
It was the birthplace of Apollonius of Perga, one of the most notable ancient Greek mathematicians 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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