Editing Perga (section)

{{Short description|Ancient Greek city}}
{{Infobox ancient site
  |name = Perga
  |native_name = {{Transliteration|hit|''Parha''}} ([[Hittite language|Hittite]])<br/>Πέργη {{in lang|grc}}<br/>Perge {{in lang|tr}}
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  |image = Perge city overview.jpg
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  |caption = Overview of Perga
  |map_type = Turkey
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  |map_size = 270
  |coordinates = {{coord|36|57|41|N|30|51|14|E|display=inline,title}}
  |location = [[Aksu, Antalya]], Turkey
  |region = [[Lukka lands|Lukka]]<br/>[[Pamphylia]]
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  |built = By 1209&nbsp;BC
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  |epochs = [[Chalcolithic]] Age to [[Middle Ages]]
  |cultures = {{hlist|[[Luwians|Luwian]]|[[Lycians|Lycian]]|[[Hittites|Hittite]]| [[Greeks|Greek]]| [[Ancient Rome|Roman]]|[[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]]| [[Turkish people|Turkish]]}}
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  |occupants = [[Apollonius of Perga|Apollonius]]
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[[File:Perge Plan.jpg|thumb|Plan of Perge]]
[[File:Perge - Ágora - 01.jpg|thumb|The [[agora]]]]
[[File:Perge - Estadio.jpg|thumb|The stadium]]
'''Perga''' or '''Perge''' ([[Hittite language|Hittite]]: ''Parha'',{{efn|See:<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Gurney |first1= Oliver Robert |date= 1997 |title= The Annals of Hattusilis III. |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/3642903 |journal=Anatolian Studies |volume=47 |pages=128–135 |doi= 10.2307/3642903 |jstor= 3642903 |s2cid= 162163204 | access-date= 25 November 2022|url-access= subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Gander |first1= Max |date= 2012|title= Review: The Historical Geography of Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age: still an open question |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40119644 |journal= Orientalia |volume=81 |issue=2 |page=137 | access-date= 25 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Gander |first1= Max |date= 2014|title= Tlos, Oinoanda and the Hittite Invasion of the Lukka lands. Some Thoughts on the History of North-Western Lycia in the Late Bronze and Iron Age |url= https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272399858 |journal= Klio |volume=81 |issue=2 |page=370 | access-date= 25 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Blasweiler |first= Joost |date= 2019 |title= The kingdom of Purušhanda and its relations with the kings of Mari and Kanesh in the 18th Century BC |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vaSWwgEACAAJ |publisher= Joost Blasweiler |page= 25 |isbn= 978-90-820497-5-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |type=MSc |last=Çilingir |first=Sevgül |date=2011 |title=Hitit Tapınak Kentleri |url=https://www.academia.edu/2083096 |publisher=Ege Üniversitesi |page= 25}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Matessi | first1= Alvise | last2= Tomassini Pieri | first2= Bianca Maria|editor-last1=Weeden | editor-first1= Mark | editor-last2=Ullmann | editor-first2=Lee Z. |date=2012 |title=Hittite Landscape and Geography |url= https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/22731 |chapter= South-Central: Archaeology |publisher= Brill |page= 98 |isbn= 978-90-04-34939-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Rutherford |first= Ian |date= 2012 |title= Hittite Texts and Greek Religion: Contact, Interaction, and Comparison |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mJj5DwAAQBAJ|location= Oxford |publisher= Oxford University Press |page= 51 |isbn= 9780199593279}}</ref>}} {{langx|el|Πέργη}} ''Perge'', {{langx|tr|Perge}}) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement{{efn|See:<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Gurney |first1= Oliver Robert |date= 1997 |title= The Annals of Hattusilis III. |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/3642903 |journal=Anatolian Studies |volume=47 |page=135|doi= 10.2307/3642903 |jstor= 3642903 |s2cid= 162163204 |url-access= subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Bryce |first1= Trevor R. |date= 1992|title= Lukka Revisited |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/545499 |journal= Journal of Near Eastern Studies |volume=51 |issue=2 |page=123|doi= 10.1086/373535 |jstor= 545499 |s2cid= 222441745 |url-access= subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Yakar |first= Jak |editor-last1= Çınardalı-Karaaslan |editor-first1= Nazlı |editor-last2=Aykurt |editor-first2= Ayşegül |editor-last3=Kolankaya-Bostancı  |editor-first3=Neyir  |editor-last4= Erbil |editor-first4= Yiğit H. |date= 2014 |chapter= The Archaeology and Political Geography of the Lower Land in the Last Century of the Hittite Empire |title= Anadolu Kültürlerine Bir Bakış Some Observations on Anatolian Cultures Armağan Erkanal'a Armağan Compiled in Honor of Armağan Erkanal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271384482 |publisher= Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları |page= 504}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |type=MSc |last=Seçer |first=Sezer |date=2012 |title=Yazılı Belgeler Işığında Lukka, Pedassa ve Walma Ülkelerinin Tarihi ve Tarihi Coğrafyası|url=http://nek.istanbul.edu.tr:4444/ekos/TEZ/49229.pdf |publisher=İstanbul Üniversitesi |page= 39}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Talloen |first= Peter |date= 2015 |chapter= The Archaeology and Political Geography of the Lower Land in the Last Century of the Hittite Empire |title= Cult in Pisidia: Religious Practice in Southwestern Asia Minor from Alexander the Great to the Rise of Christianity |url= https://www.academia.edu/11543998 |publisher= Brepols Publishers |page= 62}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bilgin |first= Tayfun |date= 2015 |chapter= The Archaeology and Political Geography of the Lower Land in the Last Century of the Hittite Empire |title= Officials and Administration in the Hittite World |url= https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501509773/html |publisher= De Gruyter |page= 23|doi= 10.1515/9781501509773 |isbn= 9781501509773 |s2cid= 166095378 }}</ref>}} that later became a [[Greeks|Greek]] city in [[Pamphylia]].<ref name="CottonHoylandPrice2009">{{cite book | editor1 = Hannah M. Cotton | editor2 = Robert G. Hoyland | editor3 = Jonathan J. Price | editor4 = David J. Wasserstein | date = 3 September 2009 | title = From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East | publisher = Cambridge University Press | pages = | isbn = 978-0-521-87581-3 | oclc = 1014862628 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7fVsvzHi8iQC|quote=Like Ephesus, Perge was a Greek Polis, and the seat of the governor and the financial procurator of the province of Lycia-Pamphylia.}}</ref> It was the capital of the Roman province of [[Pamphylia Secunda]], now located in [[Antalya Province]] on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of [[Turkey]]. Today its ruins lie {{convert|15|km}} east of [[Antalya]].

It was the birthplace of [[Apollonius of Perga]], one of the most notable [[Greek mathematics|ancient Greek mathematicians]] for his work on [[conic sections]]. A unique and prominent feature for a Roman city was the long central water channel in the centre of the main street which contained a series of cascading pools and which would have been remarkable even today in a semi-arid area where summer temperatures reach over 30 degrees Celsius.