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ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS:10x19 antik kentler 8/1/11 10:52 AM Sayfa<br />

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The City Gates of Perge.<br />

Flanked by two Hellenistic towers, the portal leads into a horse-shoe shaped<br />

courtyard. During the 4 th century AD, a second gate was added to the main<br />

gateway has been destroyed. Below the vaults on the eastern side<br />

there are thirty shops.<br />

Perge is surrounded by a Hellenistic Period wall reinforced here <strong>and</strong><br />

there with towers. The fortifications on the southern side were<br />

exp<strong>and</strong>ed in the 4 th century AD. We enter the ruins through a gate<br />

built during the reign of Septimius Severus (193-211 AD) that passes<br />

into a courtyard in the walls. The rectangular courtyard before the

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