The name is derived from the word meaning "pomegranate" in that languge used to symbolize abundance in the past. Historian Strabon reports that the City of Side was first constructed by the colonists migrated from "Kyme" in the 7th Century B.C. Later on, it was mastered by the Lydians in the 6th Century B.C. and by the Persians at the beginning of the 3rd Century B.C. successively. When the fleet of the King of Syria, Antiochus III was destroyed near the deep waters of Side by the Rodhosian fleet, Pamphylia was given to the Pergamum Kingdom, but Side was independent at that time. The moust brilliand and thriving days of Side start in this Age.She set up no only a fleet of merchant-ships in addition to warshipts establishing a mighty domination of trade on the district, but also was distinguished as a center of culture. As time went on; piracy became a way of living, and noble spiritual ideals left their places to plundering and ransacking, so that Side turned to be only a city for marketing the ransacked and pillfered goods of the pirates.
It became a self-determining province of Rome in the First Century A.D. Most of the monumental master pieces we see today belong o that period. After the 5th Century A.D. Side was under the influence of Christian doctrine as the other cities of this district. From the 9th Century A.D. until the year 1900 the city was under the continued attacks of the Arabs. In the beginning of the 20th Century some people migrated here from Create.
Double 'S' in this word suggest us that this City was constructed bz some people that used to live in Anatolia.Neverthelles we haven't certain information about its construction .First it came into view in the Hellenistis Period.Alexander the Great who had conquered almost all the cities around couldn't somehow master this one, (334 B.C.) The City lived its most brilliant and mighty days in the 2nd and 3rd Centues A.D.It was deserdet in the 5th Century completely for some reasons or other.
On walking 45 kilometers from Antalya towards the west. You get to Olimpos, which is 50 metres high above sea - level, and which was one of the important cities of the Lykia Kingdom. You can go by bus from antalya its about 1 hour. One can go to "Yanartas" from "Cirali" which is 7 kilometres far from the City in one hour. Here you will see the burning-gas flourishing out of a rock crack for thousands of years. The myth. Around this unceasing gas is as follows:
"Hipponoes, the son of Glaukos, the King of Epyr has killed his brother, Belleros, in hunting accitently. Upon this unexpected tragedy, Hipponoes is called as "Bellerephontes" meaning "Eater of Belleros". The brother killer has not only stained with fratricide, but also has the suffering of being exiled from his country. After so many pains and wnderings Bellerephontes pleas protection of Preotos, the King of "Tipins" in Greece."
"The prince is a handsome young man, so that the wife of the King falls in love with the young prince. But the young man doesn't betray his protector and commit so great a wrong! The Queen, then, is very angry with him and tells her husband that Bellerephontes tried to seduce her. The King Hesitates and guided by conscience he sends him to his father-in-law named Yobates, the King of Lykia, so that he should be killed there. But King Yobates also can't manage to get this yound man murdered. However, he tries another way of getting rid of him:"
"He will spare his life in cafe he succeeds in defeating the Monster Chimera which has lion-head, goat body, snake-tail and which flame has been flourishing out of its mouth, in the environment. On the other hand, the father of the gods, Zeus, pitying our Hero sends Pegasus, the Winged-Horse to him. On the back of this godlike horse he struggles with this fearful monster and puts Chimera in the earth 7 times deep. So results the legend and concludes that this flame of the Monster has been flourishing out of the dark depts of the earth since."
Recommends: Go to there with couples! not alone.. because there is so many beautiful rocks but you can fear them at the night! hehe
You can stay at the wooden rooms, you can find your old and loss friend ...
It has a Mediterranen climate, i.e. warm and rainy in winter, hot and dry in summer. Average annual rainfall days are 75. 66 % of this rainfall is in winter, 16 % in autumn, 16 % in spring and 2 % in summer. Average temperature recorded is 44º Centigrade, the lowest is -7º... though in most days of summer the temperature rises over 30ºC. above zero, a cool breeze blowing towards the City makes you feel refreshed in the afternoon and also a soft-wind locally called "Dokkun", blowing from the west towards the sea, has the same effect at night Those special winds of this area cause avalanches which are extremely useful for the agriculture. The temperature drops the freezing point very rarely. The average heat of the sea-water is 22ºC... This becomes 18ºC. in February and March, and 28,º 29ºC. in July, August and September.
