Trebenna

36.86571730.475731Koordinaten: 36 ° 52 'N, 30 ° 29'

Trebenna is an ancient city in Asia Minor landscape Lycia, on the border of Pamphylia, 22 km west-southwest of Antalya ( Turkey) at today's Çağlarca.

Trebenna is mentioned in any ancient writer. The name is only known from coins and inscriptions. The age of the city was probably built up in classic time back. Since the Hellenistic period was Trebenna member of the Lycian League, in the later Imperial period Roman titular colony, and in the 5th century bishop's seat. In late antiquity, the town belonged to the province of Pamphylia. Coins are only from the time of Gordian III. known.

The ruins of the city lie on a small hill and surrounded by an early Byzantine defensive wall. In the wall of numerous inscriptions and sarcophagi are installed as spoils. In the city there are the remains of Roman baths and an early Byzantine basilica. Above the city is an Acropolis, which was expanded in Middle Byzantine period as attachment, in their vicinity a medium Byzantine Einraumkirche.