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ADADA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Adada (Eth. Adadeus, Ptol.; Adadare in old edit. of Strabo; Odada, Hierocl.), a town in Pisidia of uncertain site. On coins of Valerian and Gallienus we find ADADEMN. Adada is mentioned in the Councils as the see of a bishop. (Artemiod. ap. Strab. xii. p. 570; Ptol. v. 5. § 8; Hierocl. p. 674, with Wesseling's note.)
Near Sutculer, about 35 km S of Egridir. The city is first mentioned
in an inscription of the 2d c. B.C. recording a treaty of friendship and alliance
with Termessos Maior; reference is made to "the democracy established in
each of the cities." Coinage began in the 1st c. B.C., with the title "Autonomous,"
and continued to the time of Gallienus. Later the city was a bishopric under the
metropolitan of Antiocheia.
The location at Karabavli is accepted, though not strictly proved.
The ruins are quite impressive, including a Temple of the Emperors and Aphrodite,
and a Temple of the Emperors and Zeus Sarapis. From the agora a finely preserved
stairway leads up to a tower and other buildings, apparently the acropolis of
the city. Many of the buildings are standing to several stories.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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