Side
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.233, 27.850
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Caria in modern-day Turkey
History
Side. also known as Sibde (Σίβδη), was a town of ancient Caria. According to Pliny the Elder, Alexander the Great united in Halicarnassus six cities by synoecism, including Side, next to Theangela, Medmasa, Uranium, Pedasa, and Telmissus. Strabo, however, points out that this synoecism would have been carried out earlier, during the reign of Mausolus.