Photo: “The Library with 16 bookshelves in 2 stories accessible by means of wooden galleries, built around 130 AD, considered to be Turkey's second-best preserved ancient library structure after the "Celsus Library" of Ephesus, Nysa on the Maea”, Carole Raddato · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for the web.
TÜRKIYE · 3RD CENTURY BC
Nysa on the Maeander
Νῦσα
Founded by Antiochus I Soter, son of Seleucus, in the first half of the 3rd century BC, Nysa spreads across both banks of a stream that runs through a deep gorge; in antiquity three bridges joined the two sides. Its two-storey library is the best-preserved ancient library in Anatolia after the Library of Celsus at Ephesus.
- Original name
- Νῦσα
- Country
- Türkiye
- Period
- 3rd century BC
- Civilisation
- Hellenistic
- Location
- 37.9037° N, 28.1454° E Open in OpenStreetMap Open in Apple Maps
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Areas of the site
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Theatre
The well-preserved theatre for 10,000 spectators, on the eastern slope in the city centre.
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Library
A two-storey library, the best preserved in Anatolia after the Library of Celsus at Ephesus.
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Agora
The marketplace, 89 by 105 m, framed on all four sides by colonnaded halls.
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Gerontikon
The bouleuterion, identified as the Gerontikon or council of elders, is Nysa’s best-preserved building.