Cremna, Pisidia

Kremna (Greek Κρῆμνα ) was an ancient Greek city in Pisidia, a rugged mountain scenery in the Southwest of Asia Minor, two kilometers southeast of the present village Girme ( Çamlık, Burdur province ), 68 km north of Antalya.

The city's name literally means " cliffs ". It stands on a 1,200 m high isolated rocky ridge that rises 250 m from a high plateau. The city itself, hardly situated on a rocky plateau to erstürmenden is mentioned in only a few historical sources. Only the Roman geographer Strabo states that the city was once conquered by Galaterkönig Amyntas. After his death, the Romans took over the city. Emperor Augustus tried the new Galatia province and its warlike inhabitants to pacify by colonies built in Kremna and numerous other places of veteran veterans.

In the second and third century AD, the city flourished. Many public buildings were constructed, such as a basilica, two theaters and a public bath house, which was later converted into a library and gallery. To supply this bathhouse had to be built an aqueduct, which was complemented by amazing mechanical devices.

From pre-Roman Kremna Nothing remains, the ruins originate predominantly from the middle Imperial period and Late Antiquity.

As the historian Zosimus reported bandits raided from the Taurus Mountains, under the leadership of a certain Lydios 278 the coastal areas of the region. When they were driven out by Roman troops, they fled to Kremna, where they were besieged by the Romans and defeated. The city never recovered from the effects of this siege. British researchers found numerous references to the siege, including two siege walls, numerous missiles and a Schanz hill the defender and a Emperor Probus dedicated inscription. On a late Roman Diocese of the city, the titular Cremna the Roman Catholic Church is declining.