Andriake
Ancient city in southwest Asia Minor
Andriake or Andriaca (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδριάκη) was an ancient city and the port of the ancient town of Myra in Lycia. It is in the modern Demre district of Antalya Province, in south-western Turkey.
The site has a museum.
01History
Andriake is mentioned by Ptolemy; and Pliny has Andriaca civitas, Myra (v. 27).
Appian (B.C. iv. 82) says that in 42 BC Lentulus was sent by Brutus to collect money and broke through the chain which defended the entrance to the port, and went up the river to Myra.
Beaufort (Karamania, p. 26) gives the name Andráki to the river of Myra.
Andriake is clearly the port on the small river on which Myra stood, 20 stadia higher up. (Strab. p. 666.) It must have been at Andriake, as Cramer observes, that St. Paul and his companion prisoners were put on board the Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy. (Acts, xxvii. 5, 6.)
02Site
Sources and credits
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- Andriake Harbour area 0287.jpg by Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andriake Plan.jpg by Rjdeadly, CC BY-SA 4.0
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