Attalia - Turkey
In
150 BC
Attalos II, king of
Pergamon, founded the city of Attalia
(present day Antalya) to base his powerful naval fleet.
Later Antalya became part of the
Roman Republic in
133 BC when King Attalos III of Pergamum willed his
kingdom to Rome at his death; the city grew and
prospered in the
Ancient Roman period. Christianity started to spread
to the region after 2nd century. The city later became a
naval base for the Christian
Crusades against the Muslims in the Levant and in
Cyprus. (Wikipedia)
When looking at the 2,000 year old ruins of this
Mediterranean city, or for example the ruins of Caesarea
in present day Israel, it is clear that the destruction
of Jerusalem was total, since there is almost no
significant building or structure remaining of the
capital of the ancient Hebrew civilization, which
according to biblical accounts had ruled over a rich and
magnificent kingdom
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