Antiochia ad Cragum

Antioch on Kragos ( ἐπὶ Greek Ἀντιόχεια Κράγῳ, lat Antioch ad Cragum ) was an ancient city in Cilicia Rauen ( Cilicia Tracheia ) on the south coast of Asia Minor, 20 km southeast of Selinus, present-day Gazipasa in Turkey's Antalya Province, the present-day village Güneyköy.

The name (translated at the cliffs ) goes to the city's location back: high above the ocean on steep cliffs.

It was founded probably in the middle of the 1st century AD by King Antiochus IV of Commagene ( 38-72 AD), after Claudius had entrusted to him 41 AD, the control of the Rough Cilicia. Since 72 AD, it was part of the new Roman province of Cilicia, from the beginning of the 4th century to the 7th century to the province Isauria.

The center of the city with a colonnaded street, agora, baths, temples and churches located high on the hillside above the sea, surrounded by vast necropolis. Took you for a long time, the city was rather insignificant and have been Romanized only superficial, so are increasing in recent years, the evidence that Antioch was more important and richer than suspected. In 2012, archaeologists from the University of Nebraska placed here, for example, a 150 -square-meter mosaic dating from around 300 AD free.