NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pisidia

Pisidia was a region of ancient Asia Minor, located north of Lycia, and bordering Caria, Lydia, Phrygia and Pamphylia. Pisidia was a wild, mountainous region, and one of the most difficult for outside powers to control. It was largely independent from both the Lydians or Persians. Alexander the Great had somewhat better luck, although the city of Termessus defied him, but the Hellenistic kings were never in full control. Cities in the region was among the last in western Anatolia to hellenize and to coin their own money. Image File history File links Map I created. ... Image File history File links Map I created. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... Lycia is a region on the southern coast of Turkey. ... Caria (Greek ÎšÎ±ÏÎ¯Î±) was a region of Asia Minor, situated south of Ionia, and west of Phrygia and Lycia. ... Lydia was an ancient kingdom of Asia Minor, known to Homer as Mæonia. ... In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of the Anatolian highlands, part of modern Turkey, from ca. ... Pamphylia, in ancient geography, was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus. ... See 110 Lydia for the asteroid. ... Alexander the Great fighting the Persian king Darius (Pompei mosaic, from a 3rd century BC original Greek painting, now lost). ... The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance... Anatolia (Greek: Î±Î½Î±Ï„Î¿Î»Î® anatolÄ“ or anatolÃ, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish associated with Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion...

Among Pisidia's settlements were Termessus, Selge, Sagalassus and Etenna. The Pisidian language is poorly known, but is assumed to be a member of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. The Anatolian languages are a group of extinct languages, either Indo-European or (in some classifications) closely related to Indo-European, which were spoken in Asia Minor, including Hittite. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies Indo-European is originally a linguistic term, referring to the Indo-European language family. ...

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