Side - Selimiye
If one drives on the Verbindungsstrabe from Antalya to Alanya 75 km eastward, one arrives at the 3 km of the sea removed Selimiye. It lies on the peninsula mentioned and is with the ruins of the antique city Side verwoben. The area is with its outstanding holiday areas in Titreyengöl (“trembling lake”) and Kumköy (“sand village”) eyeball of the Turkish tourism. The vacation travelers genieben sun, beach and sea and can participate in hunt, nature, boat, Alm, Rafting, camping and jeep trips. After anatolischer mythology a daily nature and fertility goddess Side took her small daughter and went together with Wasserfeen to the valley of the Manauwa of river, which heibt today Manavgat. They picked straight flowers, there saw them a tree with thin branches, shining sheets and kunterbunten blooms. Side broke two off of the tree, in order to give it to its daughter, but blood began there to drip from the branch. Side became clear that it concerned with the tree a Nymphe, which had transformed into a tree, in order to hide itself before bad humans, who had pursued her. Side had become very sad and wanted to depart immediately from the tree. However was their Fübe at the ground festgewachsen, and she could not move her any longer. Begun at their Füben a thin crust at their body began itself to form, and it took slowly the form of a tree. The other Wasserfeen cried for regret, and their tears fell on the roots of Side. This had seen and spoke its error long to the Feen: “I become from now on with my many, blood-red fruits the symbol for nature, life and fertility; my daughter often brings and lets her in my shade play. It is not to cause suffering to a tree. Perhaps each tree is a God, that the shape of a plant assumed.” The peninsula Side is full trees of the sort like those according to the mythology to the garnet apple tree Side become. The name Side meant in the luwischen/etruskischen spoke Granatapfel. It was written in göktürkischer way of writing ış.ot.oğhu, what likewise flowed lit, magnificent tent blow and in the French as Chateau (lock), in English as town centre (city), in German as city and in the Italian as Citta (city). The fact that the roots of the language of Side exhibit luwische characteristics shows us that the history of the city in the 4th Jtsd. v. Chr. goes back. It is accepted that the population of Side lived in this time of fishing and navigation to small extent. Also she experienced increasing by the influx of Rückkehrern of different anatolischer groups of peoples from the Trojan war. In the 9th Jhd. the city was within the national borders of Westklikien of the späthititischen ruler Kizzuwatna and fell in the 7th Jhd. v. Chr. at the lydische community of states and 546 v. Chr. under the rule of the Perser. 334 v. Chr. it could the Macedonian king Alexander the rough one not resist and had for it their gates open. Thus components of the Hellenic culture entrance into the everyday life life found inevitable, and also the religious opinions were subjected to changes. Athene, the anatolische mother goddess Kybele and Apollo were equated with the moon God Men. A time long was the city under the rule of the Kingdom of Pergamon, and after it itself at the beginning of the 1st Jhd. v. Chr. to a home port for Piraten, developed here the gröbte slave market at the Mediterranean had developed. With the clearing of the Mediterranean coasts of Piraterie Side changed into the Roman realm, and under the Pax Romana it experienced its bloom time. After the 5th Jhd. n. Chr. the city to the bishop centre, some their temples was converted into orthodox churches, and starting from the 7th Jhd. n. Chr. it was set and destroyed by Arab trunks in fire. The population emigrated into the capital Pamphyliens, after Attelia (the today’s Antalya). By sand dune movements in the direction of eastern town-gate and by earthquakes in 9. and 12. Jhd. n. Chr. the city purged completely. 1207 loves themselves into the area Turk in the northeast of the antique city, come, down. Up to 14. Jhd. n. Chr. the area was within the borders of the seldschukischen realm and 1391 the osmanischen realm was added. In the modern times refugees Turks settled and created on the point of the peninsula the village Selimiye here from Crete. During the entrance into the place the eyes of the visitor fall first on the ruins of the Stadtmauer and the Eingangstores. Beside the gate the remnants water of the prominent aquaduct are appropriate. Before this buildings found itself 15 m high and 35 m broad, dreistöckier intending well, whose front, in which likewise niches were in the form of oyster bowls between columns with korinthischen Kapitellen, with geometrical and plant-representing motives from marble.
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