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Perge
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🏛️ Ancient ruins

Perge

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
999 BC
Population
—
Coordinates
36.962, 30.855
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

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History

Perga or Perge was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. 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 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Antalya.

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