High up in the Taurus Mountains about 60km/37mi north of Aspendos lies the village of Altinkaya Köyü (Zerk; 1,050m/3,444ft) and the ruins of Selge. The road via Beskonak beyond Alabalik is very poor, but quite an experience. It is said that the town was founded by Kalchas, the blind prophet of the Trojan war, and the rest of his army from Troy. Until Roman times the remote location of the settlement served to protect the town's inhabitants from foreign rule.
Yet trade flourished thanks to some good relations with the towns of Pamphylia and other regions of Asia Minor and the Pisidian town of Selge enjoyed great prosperity during Imperial Roman times. The extensive ruins contain many interesting remains, but the principal sights are the Roman theater with a Greek auditorium (10,000 seats) and the adjacent stadium. Some distance to the southwest on a mound lie the remains of a Temple of Zeus and a Temple of Artemis and just beyond a cistern-like round vessel for the town's water supply. About 500m/550yds to the east on another hillock stands the agora, at one time surrounded on three sides with rows of shops and from which a colonnaded street runs to the north. The remains of a triple-aisled basilica and a hall 120m/394ft long can be found nearby. The course of a town wall with a gate can be clearly discerned.
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