Side, Turkey

Side, formerly known as Selimiye, is a city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, comprising a modern resort town and the ruins of the ancient city of Side, one of the best known classical sites in the country. Modern Side is a neighborhood of the municipality and district of Manavgat in Antalya Province, with a population of 14,527 recorded in 2022, and was itself a separate town until a 2013 administrative reorganization. It lies on a small north-south peninsula about a kilometer long on the Pamphylian coast, roughly 20 kilometers east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River and 78 kilometers from Antalya.