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Parha

Parha was an ancient Lycian town located at the site of modern-day Aksu, Antalya Province, Turkey. Parha was founded circa 4000 BC, and Parha was once the boundary of King Tudhaliya IV's Hittite Empire and the Lukka lands. The settlement became a Greek colony of Rhodes in the 7th century BC and became a Pamphylian Greek city as "Perge", coming under the rule of both Persians and Athenians. The Persians conquered Perge in 540 BC, and it rebelled against Persian rule in 360 BC. Alexander the Great liberated Perge in 334 BC, and Perge later came under Seleucid rule, by Pergamon after 188 BC, and under Roman rule from 133 BC. Perga became a magnificent city with many impressive buildings from the 1st to 3rd centuries AD, and Paul the Apostle preached to the people of Perga in 46 AD before traveling on to Attaleia. Perga declined as a secular city due to the silting of the Cestrus, and Perga remained a Christian center into the 6th century AD.

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