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Isinda

Isinda or Isionda was a town of ancient Pisidia.

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Isinda (Ancient Greek: Ἴσινδα) or Isionda (Ancient Greek: Ἰσιόνδα) was a town of ancient Pisidia.

Its site is located near Korkuteli, Asiatic Turkey. More precisely, the site is now thought to be at the village of Kişla, though formerly identified with Yazır. In the 1840s, Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt and Edward Forbes visited Kişla, an hour's ride from Korkuteli (referred to as Stenez), with extensive walls of soft stone and burnt brick, and identified it as the city of Isinda, which the Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, on his victorious march through Asia Minor in 189 BCE, found besieged by Termessus. At the city's request he raised the siege and fined the Termessians 50 talents.

Isinda stood in a strategic position at the western end of the pass leading from Pamphylia by Termessus to Pisidia. Samples of the extensive coinage of Isinda are extant, which give evidence that it considered itself an Ionian colony.

Isinda was later included in the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda. At an early stage, it became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Perge, the capital of the province. Of its bishops, Cyrillus took part in the First Council of Nicaea in 325, Edesius in the Council of Ephesus in 431, Marcellinus in the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Talleleus in the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, Ignatius in the Photian Council of Constantinople (879).

Text: Wikipedia (English), CC BY-SA 4.0 · abridged

Location and names: Wikidata (CC0)

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The closest 8 places around Isinda; sorted without regard to province borders.

Ouerbe

Ancient City · Korkuteli / Antalya21.2 km

Sibidounda

Ancient City · Korkuteli / Antalya21.3 km

Toriaeum

Ancient City · Korkuteli / Antalya25.1 km

Pogla

Ancient City · Korkuteli / Antalya25.9 km

Termessus

Ancient City · Döşemealtı / Antalya28.5 km

Olbasa

Ancient City · Kemer / Burdur30.2 km

Ariassus

Ancient City · Döşemealtı / Antalya30.3 km

Distances are as the crow flies; driving distance may be longer.

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