Ancient City of Selinus

Selinus (Ancient Greek: Σελινοῦς, Latin: Selinus) is the site of the ruins of an ancient city in Turkey, in the historical region of Cilicia (Isauria). The city is located 45 kilometers southeast of Alanya and 3 kilometers southwest of Gazipaşa, on the Mediterranean coast, at the mouth of the Gazipaşa River. It is also the place where, according to legend, Emperor Trajan died in 117 AD. Selinus is mentioned in the works of Ptolemy, Pliny, and other ancient geographers. The city was known as Trajanopolis (Ancient Greek: Τραϊανούπολις) and was later incorporated into Isauria. In the early Byzantine era (4th – early 5th centuries), a bishopric was established in the territory of Selinunte, in the mountain fortress of Castello Lombardo (Italian: Castelo Lombardo), belonging to the metropolis of Isauria with its center in Seleucia. In 498 AD, Longinus of Selinunte, the leader of the Isaurians in a revolt against Emperor Anastasius, was captured and brought to Constantinople after the Isaurian Civil War, which lasted from 492 to 498 AD. He was executed in Nicaea, and his head was put on display.