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278 IX. PHRYGIAN CITIES ON PISIDIAN FRONTIER.
Kaya-dibi; and the road from Themisonion to Takina and Apameia
passes through it. Theodoulos, bishop in 359 at Concil. Seleuc,
appears to have been a person of some consequence. But it lay off
the great lines of communication at all periods of history, and led
a secluded existence, not sharing in the development of education and
civilization. Its coins mention a strategos, but nothing else is known
of its constitution.
The lake of Salda which lies close to Kaya-dibi seems to be men-
tioned on coins as AYAINAHNOC. The name is adjectival in form,
implying a place Aulinda or a tribe Aulindeis.
§ 2. Ths Killanian Plain was a valley containing a mixed
Phrygian and Pisidian population near the south-western frontier
of Phrygia, and deriving its name from a small town (which therefore
must have been called Killana). Strabo mentions it along with the
Tabene plain'; and this has led to its being generally identified with
the Kazanes valley. But the identification is inconsistent with a
passage of Pliny, who mentions the tractus Cyllanicus as a frontier
district of the Roman province Galatia2. See App. II § 2.
In the hills that bound on the east the valley of the upper Indos,
and in the Rabat Dagh further to the south, there rise various streams
which unite to form the river Lysis, now called Gebren-Tchai. They
meet at the south-western end of a long valley which runs far to
N.E., till it opens on the plain of the lake Askania. The upper end
of this valley is broad, open, and fertile. It contains many villages,
the chief being Tefeni, Karamanli, and Hassan-Pasha, which are also
marked by numerous remains as the centres of ancient life. This
upper part of the valley forms a district by itself. Below it the
valley narrows and becomes more undulating and less fertile. High
on the ridge S.E. of the valley lies the fortress of Olbasa. Below,
there is rough country with a long narrow glen through which the
river flows between the broken ground that occupies a good deal
of the valley on each side. Further down there is a wider stretch
of level ground on each side of the river, and this open stretch was
once the territory of Lysinia. Below Lysinia the hills close in on
1 P. 629 to KiXXd'ioj/ (n-coW under- partem Obizenen. Even though Pliny-
stood) km to Ta^rjvov, i'xovra TToKix"as were to be interpreted as enumerating
fiit;o<ppvyiovs e'xovcrr.s n ieai ITio-iSikof, external border districts, the Kazanes
d<fi' S>v alra Karmvondadrj. valley could by no possibility be con-
2 Attingit Galatia et Pamphyliae sidered as such. There would then re-
Cabaliam et Milyas qui circa Barim main only a choice between Keretapa
(1. Barbin) sunt et Cyllanicum et Oron- and the Lysis valley; and the former
dicum Pisidiae tractum, item Lycaoniae would not be called wediov or tractus.
Kaya-dibi; and the road from Themisonion to Takina and Apameia
passes through it. Theodoulos, bishop in 359 at Concil. Seleuc,
appears to have been a person of some consequence. But it lay off
the great lines of communication at all periods of history, and led
a secluded existence, not sharing in the development of education and
civilization. Its coins mention a strategos, but nothing else is known
of its constitution.
The lake of Salda which lies close to Kaya-dibi seems to be men-
tioned on coins as AYAINAHNOC. The name is adjectival in form,
implying a place Aulinda or a tribe Aulindeis.
§ 2. Ths Killanian Plain was a valley containing a mixed
Phrygian and Pisidian population near the south-western frontier
of Phrygia, and deriving its name from a small town (which therefore
must have been called Killana). Strabo mentions it along with the
Tabene plain'; and this has led to its being generally identified with
the Kazanes valley. But the identification is inconsistent with a
passage of Pliny, who mentions the tractus Cyllanicus as a frontier
district of the Roman province Galatia2. See App. II § 2.
In the hills that bound on the east the valley of the upper Indos,
and in the Rabat Dagh further to the south, there rise various streams
which unite to form the river Lysis, now called Gebren-Tchai. They
meet at the south-western end of a long valley which runs far to
N.E., till it opens on the plain of the lake Askania. The upper end
of this valley is broad, open, and fertile. It contains many villages,
the chief being Tefeni, Karamanli, and Hassan-Pasha, which are also
marked by numerous remains as the centres of ancient life. This
upper part of the valley forms a district by itself. Below it the
valley narrows and becomes more undulating and less fertile. High
on the ridge S.E. of the valley lies the fortress of Olbasa. Below,
there is rough country with a long narrow glen through which the
river flows between the broken ground that occupies a good deal
of the valley on each side. Further down there is a wider stretch
of level ground on each side of the river, and this open stretch was
once the territory of Lysinia. Below Lysinia the hills close in on
1 P. 629 to KiXXd'ioj/ (n-coW under- partem Obizenen. Even though Pliny-
stood) km to Ta^rjvov, i'xovra TToKix"as were to be interpreted as enumerating
fiit;o<ppvyiovs e'xovcrr.s n ieai ITio-iSikof, external border districts, the Kazanes
d<fi' S>v alra Karmvondadrj. valley could by no possibility be con-
2 Attingit Galatia et Pamphyliae sidered as such. There would then re-
Cabaliam et Milyas qui circa Barim main only a choice between Keretapa
(1. Barbin) sunt et Cyllanicum et Oron- and the Lysis valley; and the former
dicum Pisidiae tractum, item Lycaoniae would not be called wediov or tractus.