Pamphylia

650 BCE

Approximate time when Side is settled by colonists from Kyme.

546 BCE

Aspendos and Chios come under Persian domination.

540 BCE

Perge and other cities of Pamphylia are placed under the Persian Empire.

469 BCE

Sillyon joins the Delian League.

465 BCE

The Athenian navy under Kiimon destroys the Persians at the Battle of the Eurymedon. As a result, Aspendos and Knidos join the Delian League.

411 BCE

The Persians re-capture Aspendos.

389 BCE

The Athenian general Thrasybulos threatens Aspendos. The inhabitants collect money to bribe him to leave, but he still orders his trips to trample their crops. Enraged, the Aspendians stab and kill him.

333 BCE

Alexander the Great captures Perge, then marches on to Aspendos. The inhabitants agree to taxes in exhange for being left alone, but as Alexander continues to Side and Sillyon, he learns that Aspendos did not ratify the taxes. Enraged, he turns his army around. Aspendos quickly surrenders, but this time Alexander gives them far harsher terms.

262 BCE

The mathematician Apollonios is born in Perge.

223 BCE

The walls around the lower city in Perge are constructed.

190 BCE

Aspendos surrenders to the Romans. The general Verres plunders its art treasures. Elaios also offers their city.

190 BCE

The mathematician Apollonios dies in Perge.

150 BCE

Attalaia is founded by Attalos II.

133 BCE

Adramytteion, Smyrna, Sestos, Synnada, Laodikeia ad Lykon, Attalaia, Erythrai, Ephesos, Perge, and Assos come under Roman control after Attalos III, the last Attalid king, leaves it to Rome in his will.

67 BCE

Pompey the Great is assigned with reducing piracy in Cilicia and successfully does so, liberating Aigai, Soloi, Mallos, Side, and Tarsos from their yoke. Many of the pirates are resettled in Dyme.

63 BCE

The lands belonging to Attalaia and Olympos, previous havens of pirate activity, are put up for sale by the Romans.

25 BCE

The Romans build the Via Sebaste linking Perge with Pisidia.

25 BCE

On the death of Amyntas, king of Galatia, Rome turns Pisidia – including Sagalassos, Side, and Kremna – into a separate province of Galatia.

46 CE

St. Paul journeys to Perge.

121 CE

A triumphal arch is constructed by Hadrian in Perge.

122 CE

Hadrian‘s Nymphaeum is constructed in Perge.

2009 CE
April 5

The author of this page arrives in Antalya, formerly called Attaleia.

2009 CE
April 8

The author of this page and his wife visit Perge, Aspendos, and Side.