Termessos Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ancient city in today's Turkey
About Termessos
Termessos was a city in Pisidia, a kingdom or region that was semi-independent through the Bronze and Iron Ages. It stands on Mount Solymos (nowGüllük Dağı) in the Taurus Mountains at 1150 m elevation, and is first documented in 333 BC, when Alexander the Great failed to conquer it. He was seldom thwarted but it's not clear why he would even try, he had little reason to bother, and he may simply have come to punish banditry before marching on north to destroy Sagalassos. Allying with his successor Ptolemy, Termessos fought wars with neighbouring regions but fell under the control of Rome. At some unknown date an earthquake wrecked not only the town but its aqueduct water supply, and it was abandoned. Being remote, its stone was not removed. Archaeologists have studied its surface but have
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