پسینوس
Sign in to savePessinus () was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia (Asian Turkey). The site of the city is now the modern Turkish village of Ballıhisar, in a tributary valley of the Sakarya River on the high Anatolian plateau at 950 m above sea level, 13 km from the small town of Sivrihisar. Pessinus remains a Catholic (formerly double) titular see. thumb|right|alt=Map of Pessinus by Charles Texier (1834).|Hypothetic map of the ruins at Pessinus by the French explorer Charles Texier (1834).
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Pessinus
- Ancient site.native_name
- Πεσσινούς
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.location
- Ballıhisar, Eskişehir Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Phrygia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.epochs
- Hellenistic to Medieval
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Sivrihisar district
- Image
- Pessinus Ancient City - 4.jpg
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- described by source
- Oxford Classical Dictionary
- Commons category
- Pessinus
- located in/on physical feature
- Central Anatolia Region
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On the map
3 mapped locations