Antioch on the Maeander or Antiochia on the Maeander (Greek: Ἀντιόχεια τοῦ Μαιάνδρου; Latin: Antiochia ad Maeandrum), earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence. Though it was the site of a bridge over the Maeander, it had "little or no individual history".[1] The scanty ruins are located on a hill (named, in Turkish, Yenişer) a few kilometers southeast of Kuyucak in Turkey's Aydın Province, near the modern city of Başaran, or the village of Aliağaçiftliği.[2] The city already existed when Antiochus I enlarged and renamed it. It was home to the sophist Diotrephes.[3]
The Venus de Milo is believed to have been sculpted by a citizen of Antioch named [...]andros (possibly Alexandros).[4]
In 1148 the army of the Second Crusade forced a passage of the Maeander at Antioch in the face of determined Turkish resistance in the Battle of the Meander.[5]
In 1211 the city was the site of the Battle of Antioch on the Meander between the Byzantine rump Empire of Nicaea and the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm.
The town has not been excavated,[citation needed] although Christopher Ratté and others visited the site in 1994 and produced a sketch plan. They observed a well-fortified Byzantine site, occupying some 60 to 70 hectares (150 to 170 acres). The remains of a Roman stadium 200 metres (660 ft) in length are also visible.[6]
^"The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, AACHEN, see AQUAE GRANNI, ANTAS ("Metalla") Sardinia, Italy. ANTIOCH ON THE MAEANDER Turkey". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
^Richard Talbert [Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World], Princeton University Press, 2000, Map 65, H5 and Map-by-map Directory, p. 997]
^William Hazlitt The Classical Gazetteer (1851) Archived July 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^"Venus de Milo". Oxford Reference. Retrieved Oct 25, 2021.
^Thonemann, Peter (2011). The Maeander Valley. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-107-00688-1. Retrieved Oct 26, 2021.
^Smith, R.R.R.; Ratté, Christopher (Jan 1996). "Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1994". American Journal of Archaeology. 100 (1): 5–33. doi:10.2307/506295. JSTOR 506295. S2CID 192585517. Retrieved Oct 26, 2021.
and 27 Related for: Antioch on the Maeander information
to AntiochontheMaeander, which he hoped to use as a base to subdue the rest of the Meander Valley. The size of the Seljuk force is unknown. The hagiographer...
situated onthe southern slope of mount Messogis, onthe north of theMaeander, and about midway between Tralles and AntiochontheMaeander. The mountain...
Magnesia or Magnesia ontheMaeander (Ancient Greek: Μαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Μαιάνδρῳ or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ; Latin: Magnesia ad Maeandrum) was an ancient...
of the sculpture. Onthe basis of a now-lost inscription found near the sculpture, it has been attributed to Alexandros from AntiochontheMaeander, though...
the name of his father Antiochos.[citation needed] Colonists were brought from Magnesia ontheMaeander to people the city of Pisidian Antioch (the Land...
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans (often simply called Smyrnaeans) is an epistle from circa 110 A.D. attributed to Ignatius of Antioch, a second-century...
İzmir) onthe river Hermus (now Gediz) at the foot of Mount Sipylus. The city should not be confused with its older neighbor, Magnesia ontheMaeander, both...
written by Bishop Ignatius of Antioch to the Ephesians which begins with "Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which is at Ephesus, in...
Harpasa (Arpaz). At the confluence of theMaeander and the Orsinus, Corsymus or Corsynus is AntiochontheMaeander and onthe Orsinus in the mountains a border...
stood onthe border between Lydia and Mysia. During the Roman era, (1st century AD), it was famous for its dyeing facilities and was a center of the purple...
As a result, the archeological site that has been left is divided into nine layers, each corresponding to a city built onthe ruins of the previous. Archaeologists...
well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea. On May 29, 1453, the city was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, and again became the capital...
Lystra is located on an ancient road which ran from Ephesus to Sardis to Antioch in Pisidia to Iconium and Lystra, to Derbe, through the Cilician Gates,...
Alabanda or Antiochia of the Chrysaorians, Caria, modern Doğanyurt (formerly Araphisar), Aydin Province AntiochontheMaeander (Antiochia ad Mæandrum)...
direction, and discharging itself into the main river a few miles (km) below AntiochontheMaeander. It is identified with the modern Dandala River. Pliny. Naturalis...
cities in the ancient world. In this list, a city is defined as a single population center. These were often referred to as poleis in the ancient world...
protected on its eastern side by the ravine of the Akhurian River and on its western side by the Bostanlar or Tzaghkotzadzor valley. The Akhurian is...
almost complete. The theme of Maeander, with its seat at Antioch-on-the-Maeander, was subordinated to it. The Thracesian Theme was one of the last Byzantine...
Karkhēd(ōn), as similarly is the name of Carthage. The mineral chalcedony is named after the city. The mound of Fikirtepe has yielded remains dating to the Chalcolithic...
originating in the considerable Jewish colony. It was one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation. Saint Ignatius of Antioch visited Smyrna...
Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city onthe western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille...
(9.3 mi) southeast of Laodicea onthe road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western...
Lycus river, close to its confluence with the Maeander. Laodicea was founded by Antiochus II Theos, king of the Seleucid Empire, in 261-253 BC in honour of...
of the Ionian League) located at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of what was then the course of theMaeander River...
from Europe (it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus is said to have occurred). Ignatius of Antioch also paused at this city before...
Global Information
