Seleucia (Greek: Σέλεύχεια) – also transliterated as Seleukeia or Seleukheia – was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of Pamphylia, in Anatolia, approximately 15 km northeast of Side; the site is currently that of the village of Bucakşeyhler (also Bucakşıhler), approximately 12 km northeast of Manavgat, Antalya Province, Turkey. Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one script into another script. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Pamphylia, in ancient geography, was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus. ... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Side (mod. ... Manavgat is a district of Antalya Province of Turkey. ... shows the Location of the Province Antalya Antalya is a province in southwest Turkey, bordering Mugla to the East, Burdur, Isparta and Konya to the North, and Karaman and Mersin to the west. ...

The are remains of an agora containing a two-storey building, a gate, a mausoleum, a Roman bath, a necropolis, in addition to several temples and churches. Map of the Agora of Athens in Socrates and Platos time An agora (αγορά), translatable as marketplace, was an essential part of an ancient Greek polis or city-state. ... St. ... A necropolis (plural: necropolises or necropoleis) is a cemetery or burying-place, literally a city of the dead. Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations. ...

References

• Blue Guide, Turkey, The Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts (ISBN 0393304892), p. 496.

External links

• Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer