Pisidia

Pisidia, one of the ancient divisions of Asia Minor, lay on the south, separated from the sea by the narrow strip of Pamphylia, and having Phrygia on the north, Isauria on the east, and Lycia on the south-west. Traversed by the main chain of the Taurus, it is a mountainous region, with an inhospitable climate. The people, a race of hardy and lawless mountaineers, were greatly given to predatory expeditions, and do not seem to have paid any regular obedience to the various oriental and other conquering races until Roman times. Under the Roman supremacy there were several prosperous cities, as Sagalassus, Antioch, Selge, Ternessus. The boundaries of the province varied at different periods.