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Multi-periodSite Name: Castabala Alternative Name: Kastabala, Hieropolis ad Pyramum
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 6.171 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Osmaniye  Nearest Village: Kesmeburun
Latitude: 37.176597N  Longitude: 36.186422E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Settlement in Osmaniye Province, Turkey

First mentioned as a fortified settlement where Alexander the Great stayed before the Battle of Issus (333 BCE). It was briefly the capital of an independent state before its absorption into the Roman Empire in the early 1st century CE.

The remains include a 200 metre long colonnaded street, a theatre and a very ruined temple of Artemis Perasia.
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Findings push back history of ancient city of Kastabala by davidmorgan on Sunday, 09 September 2018
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The ancient city of Kastabala in the southern province of Osmaniye’s Cevdetiye district is 1,500 years older than previously thought, archaeologists working at the excavations have found, making the history of the site date back 3,500 years.

The ancient site was built on three layers and not on two layers as previously thought, said the head of the excavations, Black Sea Technical University (KTU) academic Professor Turgut Hacı Zeyrek.

He said the findings pushed back the history of the ancient settlement. “We believed that the ancient city was 2,000 years old until the excavations started. But now it goes back 1,500 years more years. Now we know that Kastabala was settled 3,500 years ago.”

Zeyrek said works had been ongoing in the excavation field, stressing that they mostly focused on the city’s protection.

“Our priority here is the protection of the columned street. The street has three structural periods. When we revive the street, our experts will decide on which period will be revealed. We currently see the Middle Age period. There is the 5th-century period three meters deep. And there is also the Roman period seven to eight meters deep. Our works reveal that the columned street had three different ground floors from the three different periods,” he added.

The ancient city of Kastabala was a central city with its architecture, sacred spaces, bazaar and the columned street, Zeyrek said, adding that lots of structural pieces here could be seen in the buildings in the villages around.

He said a piece of a coffin in the ancient city was used on the door of a primary school in Bahçe village.

“We have strolled around the nearby villages. Some removable blocks are seen in the gardens of houses in Bahçe, Kazmaca and Kesmeburun villages. We don’t know if the piece of the coffin was used deliberately or not. There are also column headings in the garden of the former building of the Osmaniye Governor’s Office. It is said that these headings might belong to the columned street in Kastabala,” he said.

Tourists have not been visiting the ancient city recently, Zeyrek said. “Tourism should be revived here. Otherwise, what we do here has no meaning. Visitors mean income and this income is important for the sustainability of the project,” he added.

“The ancient city of Kastabala is located amid the Bahçe, Kazmaca and Kesmeburun villages within the borders of Cevdetiye. The architectural structures which we see on the coasts of the Aegean and the Mediterranean are seen here, too. Especially the columned streets identify a city’s plan. The columned streets start at the entrance of the city and end with a monumental structure. We found a temple in 2009. The existence of a theater, bath and religious structures prove that this city was central. The inscriptions we have found are from pedestals. The understructure was developed here, there was both clean and dirty water systems. We found it when examining the columns on the street,” Zeyrek said.

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Roman-era artifacts unearthed in Osmaniye by davidmorgan on Monday, 28 April 2014
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Three historic artifacts have been unearthed by construction equipment in two villages of the southern province of Osmaniye.

A piece of an architectural structure, measuring 105 by 80 centimeters and estimated to date back to the Roman era, was found during water pipeline construction in the Kırmacılı village. The other finding in the Kesmeburun village was again a Roman-era sarcophagus that measures 150 by 100 centimeters.

After examinations, the historical artifacts were transferred to the Kastabala Open Air Museum.
Osmaniye Museum Director Nalan Yastı said Osmaniye and its vicinity were very rich in terms of Roman- and Byzantine era-artworks.

She said the area where artworks had been unearthed were inside the archaeological site of the ancient city of Kastabala. “The Roman city Kastabala was one of the leading cities in the region along with Antalya and Anavarza. After talks with the head of the ancient city excavations, Professor Turgut Zeyrek, we have decided to display the pieces here.”

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