Termessos – Where History And Mythology Marked People’s Daily Lives

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Pisidian people built the city of Termessos 1,050 meters above sea level, providing them a great advantage against possible attacking enemies.

Rock-cut tombs along the main road into Termessos. Image credit: Ingo Mehling  – CC BY-SA 3.0

“.. Termessos maintained its independence even under the dominion of the Persians and refused to receive Alexander the Great, who dared not besiege it (Arianus, I, 27). Under the successor of Alexander, Termessos preserved its autonomy and, in 189 B. C., formed an alliance with the Roman consul, Cn. Manlius, who confirmed it; under the Emperor Domitian ,it still enjoyed this alliance. Subsequently, the city was incorporated with the Province of Pisidia and later with that of Pamphylia. From the ruins of the monuments that remain, it is evident that this was one of the richest and the most civilized cities of Asia Minor; as far back at least as the fourth century B. C., it had been colonized by the Hellenic race…”  1

Termessos was one of the most ancient Pisidian cities, inhabited by the Solims (Solymi,) a brave tribe of warriors from the Northern Lycia.

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