Editing Pamphylia (section)

== Origins of the Pamphylians ==
According to [[Encyclopædia Britannica]], the Pamphylians were “a mixture of [[Anatolian peoples|aboriginal inhabitants]], immigrant [[Cilicia|Cilicians]] ({{langx|el|Κίλικες}}) and [[Greeks]]”.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440504/Pamphylia Pamphylia], Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> However, [[Herodotus]] and [[Strabo]] record that the Pamphylians were descended from Greeks who came with [[Calchas]] and [[Amphilochus I of Argos|Amphilochos]] after the [[Trojan War]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Colvin|first=Stephen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kJOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT84|title=A Brief History of Ancient Greek|date=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-61072-5|pages=84|language=en|quote=Herodotus and Strabo record the story that the Pamphylians were the descendants of Greeks who arrived with the seers Calchas and Amphilochos after the Trojan War.}}</ref> Additionally, [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] states that they were a Greek race.<ref>Pausanias, [[Description of Greece]], 7.3.7 "Καρῶν δὲ κατὰ φιλίαν ἐκ παλαιοῦ πρὸς Μίνω, Παμφύλων δὲ ὅτι γένους μέτεστιν Ἑλληνικοῦ καὶ τούτοις"</ref> Theopompus, as well, informs us that Pamphylia was inhabited by Greeks.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pin|first=Louis Ellies Du|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSVFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA112|title=The Universal Library of Historians; the Oriental, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and Others: Containing an Account of Their Lives and a Catalogue of the Several Editions of Their Works.|date=1709|publisher=R. Bonwicke|pages=112|language=en|quote=He [Theopompus] describes how Pamphylia was inhabited by Greeks.}}</ref> Some modern scholars suggest that they migrated to Pamphylia from [[Arcadia (regional unit)|Arcadia]] and generally the [[Peloponnese]] in the 12th century BC.<ref>Ahmad Hasan Dani, Jean-Pierre Mohen, J. L. Lorenzo, and V. M. Masson, ''History of Humanity-Scientific and Cultural Development: From the Third Millennium to the Seventh Century B.C (Vol II)'', UNESCO, 1996, p.425</ref> The significance of the Greek contribution to the origin of the Pamphylians can be attested alike by tradition and archaeology,<ref>[[Arnold Hugh Martin Jones]], ''The cities of the eastern Roman provinces'', Clarendon Press, 1971, p.123</ref> and Pamphylia can be considered a Greek country from the early [[Iron Age]] until the early [[Middle Ages]].<ref>John D. Grainger, ''The cities of Pamphylia'', Oxbow Books, 2009, p.27</ref>

There can be little doubt that the Pamphylians and Pisidians were the same people, though the former had received colonies from Greece and other lands, and from this cause, combined with the greater fertility of their territory, had become more civilized than their neighbours in the interior.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} But the distinction between the two seems to have been established at an early period. Herodotus, who does not mention the Pisidians, enumerates the Pamphylians among the nations of Asia Minor, while [[Ephorus]] mentions them both, correctly including the one among the nations on the coast, the other among those of the interior.<ref name=EB1911/>

[[File:Roman empire map - pamphylia.PNG|thumb|A map showing Pamphylia's location within the Roman Empire]]
[[File:15th century map of Turkey region.jpg|thumb|15th-century map showing Pamphylia]]
[[File:Stater slinger Aspendos MBA Lyon.jpg|thumb|Slinger standing left, [[triskelion]] to right; reverse of a silver [[stater]] from Aspendos, Pamphylia]]
A number of scholars have distinguished in the [[Pamphylian Greek|Pamphylian dialect]] important [[isoglosses]] with both Arcadian and Cypriot ([[Arcadocypriot Greek]]) which allow them to be studied together with the group of dialects sometimes referred to as [[Achaeans (tribe)|Achaean]] since it was settled not only by Achaean tribes but also colonists from other Greek-speaking regions, Dorians and [[Aeolians]].<ref>A.-F. Christidis, ''A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity'', Cambridge University Press, 2007, p.427</ref> The legend related by Herodotus and Strabo, which ascribed the origin of the Pamphylians to a colony led into their country by [[Amphilochus (brother of Alcmaeon)|Amphilochus]] and [[Calchas]] after the [[Trojan War]], is merely a characteristic myth.<ref name=EB1911/>