Grainger - The cities of Pamphylia

Other Books by John D. Grainger:

Ancient History:

The Ancient Sea (forthcoming, Hambledon Continuum)

Alexander the Great Failure (Hambledon Continuum, 2008)

The Cities of Seleukid Syria (Oxford 1990)

A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer (Brill, 1997)

Seleukos Nikator (Routledge, 1991)

Hellenistic Phoenicia (Oxford 1991)

The League of the Aitolians (Brill, 2000)

The Roman War of Antiochos the Great (Brill, 2002)

Nerva and the Imperial Succession Crisis, AD 9699 (Routledge, 2002, paperback 2004)

Modern History:

Cromewll Against the Scots (Tuckwell, 1997)

The Battle of Yorktown 1781: a Reassessment (Boydell, 2005)

The Amiens Truce, Britain and Bonaparte 18011803 (Boydell, 2004)

The Royal Navy in the River Plate (Navy Records Society, 1996)

The First Pacific War, Britain and Russia 18541856 (Boydell, 2008)

The Maritime Blocade of Germany in the Great War (Navy Records Society, 2004)

The Battle for Palestine, 1917 (Boydell)

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Grainger, John D., 1939
The cities of Pamphylia / by John D. Grainger.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84217-334-3
1. Pamphylia (Turkey)--History. 2. Pamphylia (Turkey)--History, Local. 3. Cities
and towns, Ancient--Turkey--Pamphylia. 4. City and town life--Turkey--Pamphylia
-History. 5. Political culture--Turkey--Pamphylia--History. 6. Pamphylia (Turkey)
-Social conditions. 7. Pamphylia (Turkey)--Politics and government. 8. Greeks-
Turkey--Pamphylia--History. I. Title.
DS156.P27G73 2009
939'.29--dc22

2009024735

Printed and bound by Hobbs the Printers Ltd,
Totton, Hampshire

Contents

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction

Pamphylia is that part of modern Turkey which faces south into the Mediter ranean and is hemmed in by mountains in all other directions; its main centre is now Antalya, the former Attaleia. To the west are the Lykian Mountains; to its east are the hills of Rough Kilikia, and these two highland areas are joined to the long high range of the Taurus Mountains on the north. The sea, the Bay of Antalya, or Pamphylian Sea, is to the south. On the map, especially a contour map, the region looks well defined, and this is also the case on the ground, where the mountains rise abruptly from the plain; its eastern and western boundaries along the coast are not so clear; ancient writers never agreed on where they were.