History and archaeology / Ancient city
Prusias ad Hypium Ancient Theater
Merkez, Düzce
The ancient theater, popularly called 'Kırk Basamaklar', of the Bithynian city of Prusias ad Hypium, known as 'the Ephesus of the Western Black Sea'.
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Its story
The first name of the ancient city lying beneath Konuralp was Kieros; this settlement, attached to Heraclea Pontica, was captured by Prusias I, King of Bithynia, who gave it his own name, and it came to be known as Prusias ad Hypium after the Hypios river, today called the Melen Çayı, flowing near the city. The city passed to Rome in 74 BC and experienced its most brilliant period in the 1st–3rd centuries AD; with visits by emperors such as Hadrian and Caracalla, public buildings such as the theater were built. The theater, founded in the Hellenistic period and enlarged in the Roman period, is at the highest point of the city; it is popularly known as 'Kırk Basamaklar' (Forty Steps). Around it are also wall fragments, aqueducts and the remains of a Roman bridge. Konuralp was declared an urban archaeological site in 2022; the Konuralp Museum and Düzce University have been carrying out excavations since 2013.
Key facts
- Period
- Hellenistic and Roman
- Location
- Within walking distance of the Konuralp Museum
- Excavation
- Since 2013, Konuralp Museum and Düzce University
- Protection
- Urban archaeological site (2022)
Trip purpose
- Free
- Photography
- Day trip
Location
40.90608, 31.14821
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Source: Web derlemesi (doğrulanmalı): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prusias_Ad_Hypium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prusias_ad_Hypium | https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konuralp%2C_D%C3%BCzce | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135582652