Seda: written in Turkish Side sovereign, and its name means "pomegranate" in ancient Greek in Anatolia, is a beach resort in Antalya province, just 75 kilometers east of the city of Antalya, Turkey. The tourist part of town of Manavgat is called a master, where you find in

Nowadays ancient monuments and hotels. Real estate sales in Seda, Turkey is mainly British and German buyers.

Seda was founded by Greek settlers in the 7th century BC, and because of its port has become one of the most important trade centers in the region. He was the master of their own language, are still unresolved, and which have been found in many of the inscriptions from 300-200 BC. It has also been discovered in excavations Sida evidence of early Hittite civilization in basalt column base from century BC 7.

Alexander the Great conquered a Master in 333 BC and was brought to the lord of the Hellenistic culture. After the death of Alexander the Great in 300, was sentenced Seda by General Alexander Ptolemy I, who took control of the ruling lineage on sovereign until the 2nd century BC, when it fell under the rule of the Seleucid Empire. Seda has grown and prospered, and became an important cultural center.

In the year 190 BC was defeated the Seleucid King Antiochus by the Romans supported by a fleet of Rhodes. Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) committed Antiochus to abandon the territory north of the Taurus Mountains to Pergamum. At this time has been building the current port of Antalya by Attalos II Philadelphus. In the 1st century BC, pirates seized the port Selician Sida and used

As a base for the slave trade in their own until defeated by the Roman consul Serfilius and they came back in 78 BC.

In the year 67 BC, Pompey subjected Sida under the rule of the Romanian Empire, and in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus to add a master of the Romanian province of Galatia. Seda began to flourish as a center of trade through trade in olive oil, and the population increased to more than 60,000. Most of the rubble dug in his master due to the birth of the first three centuries. In the fourth century, invasions began to weaken the city. Although it became the seat of the Diocese of Eastern Pamphili in the fifth century,

Defenses to withstand invasions of the Arabs in the seventh century was not. Earthquakes destroyed as well as the city, which has become widely abandoned in the tenth century. In the twelfth century, and during the early Byzantine period, flourished Seda again briefly a major city with a large number of Jews. But the subsequent invasions of the city were destroyed and which subsequently called Eski Adalia (old Antalya) after its inhabitants moved to what is now the city of Antalya.

Sida ruins are among the most prominent in Asia Minor. The ruins of the theater complex is the largest of Pamphylia. Built in the form of a Roman theater, the theater can accommodate runway master of more than 15,000 people. After his service as duels gladiators site, the theater was converted to 2

Chapels during the early Byzantine period. After that was the Diocese of Eastern Pamphylia, they still see bearer Romanian Catholic Church title. The excavations are still underway in Seda by archaeologists since 1947, and thrive today, a popular tourist destination