Side of Pamphylia photo

Inner gate and nymphaeum

Side: Greek colony in Pamphylia, important port in the Roman Empire. In the late seventh century BCE, Greek settlers from Cyme built Side on a rocky promontory on the Pamphylian shore, about ten kilometers west of the mouth of the river Melas. There must have been an older settlement because the word Sideis Anatolian ("pomegranate"). Being an isolated settlement, the town soon lost its Greek nature and the inhabitants started to speak a language that was related to Luwian. They were subsequently part of the Lydian and Persian Empires.

Side of Pamphylia

Side (Greek: Σίδη Side, Turkish: Side) was an ancient Luvi city in Anatolia, in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It is now a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in Turkey, near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 75 km from Antalya) in the province of Antalya.^[1]
It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across.