Etenna Antik Kenti

About Etenna Antik Kenti

Etenna is an ancient city at Sırtköy in the Manavgat district, set about nine hundred metres above sea level. The Ministry of Culture describes it as a Pisidian city that struck its own coins, built as an acropolis city in the highlands. The historian Polybius counted Etenna as part of Pisidia and wrote that in 218 BC the people of Etenna, who lived in the highlands of Pisidia above Side, sent a force of hoplites to help the Seleucid usurper Achaeus. Fine silver coins of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC and bronze coins from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD survive. In the late Roman period the city belonged to the province of Pamphylia, and as a Christian bishopric it came under the metropolitan see of Side; bishops of Etenna attended church councils from the First Council of Constantinople in 381 to the Council of Constantinople in 879.