Trebenna

Trebenna, also written Trabenna, was a small city of ancient Lycia on the border with Pamphylia, and it was at times counted as part of Pamphylia. Its ruins lie on a small hill east of the modern town of Caglarca in the Konyaalti district of Antalya Province, Turkey, about 22 km west of Antalya. The name is known only from coins and inscriptions, and it first appears on the Stadiasmus Patarensis, a Roman milestone found at Patara and dated to 45 or 46 AD under Claudius. Nothing shows the city existed in Hellenistic times. Under Rome it belonged to the Lycian League, and an inscription of 278 or 279 AD records its designation as a Roman colony under the governor Terentius Marcianus. The only coins found at the site carry the image of Gordian III, who gave the city the right to mint. Under the Byzantine Empire it became part of Pamphylia. Karol Lanckoronski discovered the site on an expedition to Lycia in 1882 and described it briefly in 1892. The ruins sit inside an early Byzantine wall and include Roman baths of unusually good quality for so small a city, an early Byzantine basilica and a later acropolis.