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ID: 7023967
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7023967
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Aksu (inhabited place)  Aksu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 58 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.9667  decimal degrees
Long: 030 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 30.8000  decimal degrees

Note: The Ancient city of Perge was Alexander the Great's operational base in Pamphylia; under Seleucids after death of Alexander until Magnesia 190 BCE; later controlled by Pergamene kings and was part of Cilicia province; visited twice by St. Paul.

Names:
Aksu (preferred,C,V)
Akşu (C,V)
Murtana (C,V)
Macun (H,V)
Perge (H,V)  ............ ruins of ancient city
Perga (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Antalya (province)  ............  Antalya (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Aksu (inhabited place)  ................  Aksu (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  according to tradition, founded by the "mixed people" who wandered through Asia Minor after the Trojan War
archaeological site (C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Akşu..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
...........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 692-693
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1985) 10, plate 36
Aksu..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 692-693
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 9
Macun..........  [VP]
..............  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Murtana..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Perga..........  [VP]
..............  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Perge..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..............  Baedekers: Türkei (1973) 423
..............  Dumbarton Oaks Papers Kleinbauer, XLI
..............  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8675
..............  Nagel's: Turkey (1984) 504-509
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 692
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Baedekers: Türkei (1973) 423
..................  Dumbarton Oaks Papers Kleinbauer, XLI
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8675
..................  Nagel's: Turkey (1984) 504-509
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 692; 692-693
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) 10, plate 36
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 9
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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