Pisidian Antioch

Pisidian Antioch was a significant Roman colony which was established mainly as a tool for the control of inland Anatolia and the securing of the major military and trade routes.

The city was laid out with streets, temples, baths, and public monuments, thus it is a typical example of Roman city planning in a frontier area of great strategic importance.

Pisidian Antioch is also noteworthy in terms of early Christianity because it was one of the places visited by Saint Paul on his missionary journeys.

It is situated near the present, day Yalvac, and the site is indeed a record of the exercise of political power, the existence of religious plurality, and the different aspects of everyday life in Roman Pisidia.