Excellent ruins. Not everything has been reconstructed yet. The stones are in their original form, just like a couple thousand years ago. In such places, you can spend hours looking at structures and painting in your imagination how people lived at that time.

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Екатерина Михайлова

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Cool bay. Of course, it's not very convenient to get there, but it's worth a look. It's better to come on a weekday to take great photos.

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VLAD K.

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Antiocheia AD Cragum Ancient City. The ruins of Antioch of Kragum are located about 12 kilometers southwest of the city of Gazipasa. This vast place covers an area of about three hectares. There are significant remains of baths, a market, a colonnaded street and the gates of a large Christian basilica, tombs and a temple, and several unidentified structures. Antioch is mentioned in ancient sources as an important trading center of the Roman Empire, and in the Byzantine era the city was even the residence of a Christian bishop. It so happened that Antioch, with its harbor, served as one of the shelters for Cilician pirates who attacked ships and coastal settlements in the Eastern Mediterranean from these shores in the first half of the 1st century BC. Pompey the Great put an end to piracy in 67 BC. e., having won a naval victory at nearby Korakesion (Alanya). In 38 AD, Emperor Gaius briefly transferred control of Cilicia to Rome's client king Antiochus IV of Commagene. He ruled continuously until 72 AD, and during that time he founded a city and named it after himself. After Vespasian overthrew him in 72, the city, like the rest of Cilicia, came under the direct control of Rome and became part of the expanded province of Cilicia. Excavations have been carried out at this site since 2004, and here we are.

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Antiochia Ad Cragum Ancient City

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