Historians mention that the Greek side won the battle between the Greeks and the Persians, known as the Battle of Eurymedon, which took place in 467 BC on the banks of the river flowing near the city. Although Aspendos tried to resist Alexander the Great by fraudulent m...
The ruins of Olympos that have survived to the present day are generally located at the mouth and on both sides of a river that flows rapidly from east to west towards the sea. In the ancient period, the river bed dividing the city in two was enclosed in a canal and bot...
Side became a settlement centre in the VII century BC. In the VI century BC, it came under the sovereignty of the Lydian Kingdom together with the whole Pamphylia, and after the fall of the Lydian Kingdom in 547/46, it came under the rule of the Persians. The city, whic...
