ANTALYA- The most important port
city of Pamphylia in ancient times, Side is located on a 350-400-meter-wide
peninsula, located 80 kilometers east of Antalya, seven kilometers southwest of
Manavgat.Side became a settlement center in
the seventh century BC. In the sixth century BC, it came under the rule of the
entire Kingdom of Pamphylia and Lydia. The city, which existed under the rule
of Alexander the Great for a while, constantly changed hands among the kingdoms
of the Hellenistic Period after Alexander's death.