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SIDE
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MANAVGAT - MANAVGAT WATERFALL
- SIDE RESORT - SORGUN
 Side,
ancient Pamphylia's largest port, is situated on a small peninsula
extending north-south into the sea. Strabo
and Arrianos both record that Side was settled from Kyme, city
in Aeolia, a region of western Anatolia. Most probably, this
colonization occurred in the seventh century B.C. According
to Arrianos, when settlers from Kyme came to Side, they could
not understand the dialect. After a short while, the influence
of this indigenous tongue was so great that the newcomers forgot
their native Greek and started using the language of Side. Excavations
have revealed several inscriptions written in this language.
The inscriptions, dating from the third and second centuries
B.C., remain undeciphered, but testify that the local language
was still use several centuries after colonization. Another
object found in Side excavations, a basalt column base from
the seventh century B.C. and attributable to the Neo Hittites,
provides other evidence of the site's early history. The word
"side" is Anatolian in origin and means pomegranate.
Next to no information exists concerning Side under Lydian and
Persian sovereignty. Nevertheless, the fact that Side minted
its own coins during the fifth century B.C. while under Persian
dominion, shows that it still possessed a great measure of independence.
The agora, the
city's centre of commercial and cultural activity, lay along
an arcaded street. It can be entered today from immediately
opposite the museum. This square space was surrounded on all
four sides by porticoes. Rows of stores can still be observed
running behind the north-east and north-west porticoes. An interesting
vaulted building lies in the agora's south-west corner adjacent
to the theatre, this served as the city's latrium or public
toilets and is the most highly ornamented and best preserved
example in Anatolia.
Sewers carried away the waste from this establishment, which
had a 24-toilet capacity, while in front of the building ran
a channel carrying only purified water.In order to satisfy their
need for a plentiful water supply, the people of Side went to
almost superhuman lengths. Water from the head of the Melas
river (today's Manavgat Çayı) reached Side after an adventuresome
30 kilometer journey on two-storied arched aqueducts, passing
through channels carved out of cliffs, and vaulted tunnels and
across valleys before it was collected in city cisterns, from
which it was distributed in clay pipes. Side has been excavated
by Turkish archaeologists since 1947, and excavations continue
occasionally.
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