TRALLEIS ANCIENT CITY - AYDIN long version by Yılgör DEMİRTAŞ #tralleis #travel #aydın
The ancient city of Tralleis is located on a wide and high plateau on the southern slope of Kestane Mountain (Mesogis), in the north of Aydin province. In ancient texts, the Menderes River or Mesogis Mountain were accepted as the border, which caused the city to be sometimes shown within the Caria Region and sometimes within the Lydian Region. Strabo stated that the ancient road coming from Magnesia and reaching Tralleis had Mesogis Mountain on the left and the Maiandros River Plain on the right, and that the surroundings of the city were protected and that the people living in the city were as rich as other cities in Anatolia and that some people living in the city were other people. He says that he reached important positions in the provinces.
This city, built on the fertile lands of the Menderes basin, frequently changed hands between Hellenistic kingdoms after it was taken by Alexander. The name of the city is mostly mentioned as Tralleis and rarely as Trallis in ancient sources. The Athenian historian Xenophon mentions the city as Tralli in his works Anabasis and Hellenika. Like other ancient cities, Tralleis was founded by the Traller and Argonians, a tribe, after the Dor migrations, and took its name from there. However, there is also the idea that the city took its name from an Amazon named Tralla or Thiba.
Dedekuyusu (Deştepe) Mound, located in the southwest of the city of Tralleis, provides information about the early history of the city. During the studies carried out on the mound, ceramics from the Chalcolithic Age, Early and Middle Bronze Age were unearthed. However, our knowledge about the pre-Classical Period history of the city is insufficient. After the Persians put an end to the Kingdom of Lydia in 546 BC, the city of Tralleis came under the rule of the Persian Empire. Tralleis was a Persian Satrapy under the young Cyrus during the time of Xenophon. After the young Cyrus was defeated in the expedition he organized in 401-400 BC to dethrone his older brother, the Persian King Artaxerxes, Tralleis became a center of the Carian Satrapy under Persian control.
When Alexander the Great entered Anatolia in 334 BC, defeating the Persian King Darius, Tralleis, like many other Western Anatolian cities, voluntarily accepted the rule of the Kingdom of Macedonia. It is known that after capturing Halicarnassus, Alexander had his catapults and other war equipment transported to Tralleis before setting out for Phrygia, and after capturing Halicarnassus, he gave the satrapy of all Caria to Idrieus' wife Ada. In the Wars of Diadokhs (Successors) that broke out between the commanders after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, the city changed hands for a short time between Asandros, Antigonos and Lysimachus. After the Kurupedion War between the Diadokhs in 281 BC, it came under the rule of the Seleucid Kingdom and took the name Seleuka. Our knowledge about the situation of the city during the Seleucid Period is insufficient. However, Seleucid King III. Antiochus (241-187 BC) and Pergamon King II. In the Battle of Magnesia, fought between Eumenes (197-159 BC) and his Roman allies near Mount Sipylos (Yamanlar) in 190 BC, the people of Tralleis defeated III. He supported Antiochus. All these events show that the city was a city affiliated with the Seleucid Kingdom in 190 BC. After losing the war, the people of Tralleis went to the leader of the Romans, consul Lucilius Cornelius Scipio, asked for forgiveness and wanted to come under Roman rule. Seleucid King III. After the Peace of Apameia (188 BC), which was concluded after Antiochus' defeat by Rome in the Battle of Magnesia, the political structure of the Western and Southwestern Anatolian lands underwent great changes. During this period, like many other Western Anatolian cities, Tralleis was built by the Romans during II. It was left to the Kingdom of Pergamon under the rule of Eumenes (197-159 BC). Tralleis was built by the last King of Pergamon, III., who remained under the Kingdom of Pergamon between 188-133 BC. With the will of Attalos, it came under Roman rule in 133 BC. In 126 BC, Tralleis also participated in the rebellion launched by Aristonicus against Rome in Anatolia. The city was founded by Pontus King VI in 88 BC. He also supported the rebellion launched by Mithridates against Rome. Romans and Roman supporters gathered in the Temple of Concordia for this purpose were massacred by Mithridates' soldiers. After Dulla defeated the Pontus King Mithridates, the cities that participated in this rebellion were punished by the Romans with paying heavy taxes for five years. Later, with Pompey's moderate attitude, taxes were eased and a period of economic recovery began. Pompey's close friend Pythodoros, a merchant from Nysa who lived in Tralleis, made a significant contribution to Tralleis regaining its reputation,
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