Cremna or Kremna ( Ancient Greek : Κρῆμνα ), was an ancient town in Pisidia . It is situated in the district of Bucak . It stands in a remote valley on a high plateau dominating the ancient Cestrus River (today Aksu) , with limited access and good defensive features.
10-570: It was first taken by Amyntas , commander of the Galatian auxiliary army of Brutus and Cassius , who became king of Galatia and Pisidia on going over to the side of Mark Antony . Octavian allowed him to remain king until his death in 25 BC. After this, it became a Roman colony , as Strabo says; and there are imperial coins with the epigraph COL. IVL. AVG. CREMNA, which stands for Colonia Iulia Augusta [Felix] Cremnena . Its first coins appear to have been minted under Hadrian . Ptolemy mentions
20-592: A nobleman from Acmonia in Galatia , who was in turn the father of Gaius Julius Bassus , proconsul of Bithynia in 98, and Gaius Julius Severus , a Tribune of the Legio VI Ferrata . [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Amyntas (6)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Trocmi The Trocmii or Trocmi were one of
30-475: The Cremna Colonia , and according to him it is in the same longitude as Sagalassus . Its water supply posed particular problems and the aqueduct had to include complex and novel solutions. The donatio given by the emperor Aurelian (270–275) promised a period of great prosperity for Cremna; but in 276, the town was taken by an Isaurian robber, named Lydius, who used it as a base for looting
40-453: The Trocmi was a King of Galatia and of several adjacent countries between 36 and 25 BC, mentioned by Strabo as contemporary with himself. He was the son of Brogitarus , king of Galatia , and Adobogiona , daughter of king Deiotarus Philoromaeus . Amyntas seems to have first possessed Lycaonia , where he maintained more than 300 flocks. To this he added the territory of Derbe by
50-464: The battle of Philippi in 42 BC. After the death of Deiotarus, Amyntas was made king of Cappadocia in 37 as a client ruler of Mark Antony . Plutarch enumerates him among the adherents of Mark Antony at Actium and is mentioned as deserting to Octavian , just before the battle. While pursuing his schemes of aggrandizement, and endeavoring to reduce the refractory highlanders around him, Amyntas made himself master of Homonada or Hoinona, and slew
60-420: The high Middle Ages, the ancient site of the town was abandoned, the population transferring itself to the present village of Çamlık. The ancient site was identified in 1874 and excavations began in 1970. 37°30′00.50″N 30°41′27.96″E / 37.5001389°N 30.6911000°E / 37.5001389; 30.6911000 Amyntas of Galatia Amyntas ( Ancient Greek : Ἀμύντας ), Tetrarch of
70-513: The murder of its prince, Antipater of Derbe , the friend of Cicero , and Isaura and Cappadocia by Roman favour. Originally he had been the king of Cappadocia Deiotarus secretary ( γραμματεύς ), and was made by Amyntas commander in chief ( στρατηγός ) of the Galatian auxiliaries sent to help Brutus and Cassius against the Triumvires , but deserted to Mark Anthony just before
80-519: The prince of that place; but his death was avenged by his widow, and Amyntas fell a victim in 25 to an ambush which she laid for him. On his death Galatia became a Roman province. Amyntas was the father of Artemidoros of the Trocmi , a Galatian nobleman, who married a princess of the Tectosagi , the daughter of Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii . They were the parents of Gaius Julius Severus,
90-595: The region, giving rise to the only visit of a Roman Emperor to the region, that of Marcus Claudius Tacitus . Later, the town was inserted in the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda . The name of only one of its bishops is known: Theodorus, present at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. No longer a residential bishopric, Cremna is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see . At some time in
100-518: The three ancient tribes of Galatia in central Asia Minor , together with the Tolistobogii and Tectosages , part of the possible Gallic group who moved from Macedonia into Asia Minor in the early third century BCE. All three tribes were beaten in 189 BCE by the Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso at the battles of Mt. Olympus and Mt. Magaba. This article related to an ethnic group
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