Andriake or Andriaca () was an ancient city and the port of the ancient town of Myra in

Lycia Lycia (; Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; , ; ) was a historical region in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean Sea in what is today the provinces of Antalya and Muğ ...

. It is in the modern Demre district of

Antalya Province Antalya Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey. It is located on the Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taur ...

, in south-western Turkey. The siteAndriake opens partially to visits
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History

Andriake is mentioned by

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

; and Pliny has ''Andriaca civitas'', Myra (v. 27).

Appian Appian of Alexandria (; ; ; ) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius. He was born c. 95 in Alexandria. After holding the senior offices in the pr ...

(''B.C.'' iv. 82) says that in 42 BC Lentulus was sent by Brutus to collect money and broke through the chain which defended the entrance to the port, and went up the river to Myra. Beaufort (Karamania, p. 26) gives the name ''Andráki'' to the river of Myra. Andriake is clearly the port on the small river on which Myra stood, 20 stadia higher up. ( Strab. p. 666.) It must have been at Andriake, as Cramer observes, that St. Paul and his companion prisoners were put on board the Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy. ( Acts, xxvii. 5, 6.)

Site

On the north side of the entrance are the remains of large Roman '' horrea'' with an inscription which states that they were

Hadrian Hadrian ( ; ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic peoples, Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, Aelia '' ...

's: the date is Hadrian's third consulate, 119 AD. There are ruins of churches and of a

synagogue A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...

Gallery

File:Andriake Church A 0233.jpg, Andriake Church File:Andriake Church B 0249 panorama.jpg, Andriake Church File:Andriake Eastern Bath 0234.jpg, Andriake Eastern Bath File:Andriake Harbour agora 0266.jpg, Andriake Harbour agora File:Andriake Harbour agora cistern 0274 panorama.jpg, Andriake Harbour agora cistern File:Andriake Harbour area Reconstructed ship 0298.jpg, Andriake Harbour area Reconstructed ship File:Andriake Harbour area Reconstructed ship 0307.jpg, Andriake Harbour area Reconstructed ship File:Andriake Harbour area Reconstructed ship 0305.jpg, Andriake Harbour area Reconstructed ship File:Andriake Harbour area Conferment monument 0296.jpg, Andriake Harbour area Conferment monument File:Andriake Plan with text.jpg, Andriake Plan with text File:Andriake Museum Votive stele 12 gods 0343.jpg, Andriake Museum Votive stele 12 gods File:Andriake Museum General view 0339.jpg, Andriake Museum General view File:Andriake Museum General view 0335.jpg, Andriake Museum General view File:Andriake Museum Votive stele Kakasbos 0348.jpg, Andriake Museum Votive stele Kakasbos

References

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