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ABOUT SIDE
The name is derived from the word meaning
"pomegranate" in that languge used to
symbolize abundance in the past. Historian
Strabon reports that the City of Side was
first constructed by the colonists migrated
from "Kyme" in the 7th Century B.C. Later
on, it was mastered by the Lydians in the
6th Century B.C. and by the Persians at the
beginning of the 3rd Century B.C.
successively.
When the fleet of the King of Syria,
Antiochus III was destroyed near the deep
waters of Side by the Rodhosian fleet,
Pamphylia was given to the Pergamum Kingdom,
but Side was independent at that time. The
moust brilliand and thriving days of Side
start in this Age.She set up no only a fleet
of merchant-ships in addition to warshipts
establishing a mighty domination of trade on
the district, but also was distinguished as
a center of culture. As time went on; piracy
became a way of living, and noble spiritual
ideals left their places to plundering and
ransacking, so that Side turned to be only a
city for marketing the ransacked and
pillfered goods of the pirates.
It became a self-determining province of
Rome in the First Century A.D. Most of the
monumental master pieces we see today belong
o that period. After the 5th Century A.D.
Side was under the influence of Christian
doctrine as the other cities of this
district. From the 9th Century A.D. until
the year 1900 the city was under the
continued attacks of the Arabs. In the
beginning of the 20th Century some people
migrated here from Create.
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