Pessinus
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 39.334, 31.584
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city and archaeological site in Turkey at modern Ballıhisar
History
Pessinus was an ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia. The site of the city is now the modern Turkish village of Ballıhisar, in a tributary valley of the Sakarya River on the high Anatolian plateau at ca. 950 m above sea level, 13 km from the small town of Sivrihisar. Pessinus remains a Catholic titular see.