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 Pessinus  45 pictures
 2.11 minutes HQ video Pessinus, the famous city of Antiquity, is in Ballihisar region, near Sivrihisar, on the Ankara-Eskisehir highway. Pessinus, which is also known as The City of Temples had preserved its importance and holiness during the Roman period . The city was under Pergamene domination but its priests seem to have enjoyed a limited independence in spite of the Galatian invasion. A chief priest ruled, together with five Phrygian and five Galatian priests. Sometime before 164 B.C. Pessinus fell into the power of the Gauls, and the membership of the priestly college was then equally divided between the Gauls and the old priestly families. Pessinus passed to the Romans in 225 B.C. when Augustus constituted the province Galatia. After Constantine it was the metropolis of Galatia Secunda or Salutaris. View of the Valley of the Village Ballihisar The Temple The temple was built in the first half of the first century A.D. The style of the fine Ionic capitals found here indicate that this public structure dates also to the first half of the first century A.D. Odeon  Theater (no remains)
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