PERGE

Joined to the sea in ancient times by the Kestros River - navigable at the time - Perge is one of the most important and spectacular coastal towns; it is also famous from the religious point of view because it was here that St.Paul delivered his first sermon, and from the historic standpoint because it is the birth-place of the mathematician Apollonius, author of a famous treatise on geometry.

The name Perge comes from an Anatolian dialect; nonetheless, in ancient times the townsmen believed that it had been founded by Greek heroes after the siege of Troy.

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