Amorium Ancient City
Amorium, meaning citadel. Since the 2000s, it has been inhabited uninterruptedly during the Phrygian, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods. 70 km from Afyonkarahisar. northeast of the Emirdag district and 13 km. The ancient city located in the east is evaluated under two headings as the upper and lower city. Amorium played an important role in the history of Central Anatolia during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. The fact that Amorium was among the first cities to be allowed to issue its own money in the region by the Roman Senate indicates that it had an important position in East Phrygia at the beginning of the 1st century BC. It is estimated that Amorium was an important commercial city in Late Antiquity, attracting large numbers of people from the surrounding towns with its regular festivals and fairs. It is known that many important personalities in history were commemorated with the Ancient City of Amorium. It is thought that Aesop, the pioneer of fable literature, lived in Amorium. Amorium was one of the stops in the religious quest of Salman-i Farisi, a great Companion who has a great importance in terms of Islamic history, in order to seek the path of Truth, from which he set out from Iran. His Excellency Salman-i Farisi studied for 7 years in the church in Amorium, and then, with the birth of Islam, he went to Medina to get to know Islam, the Prophet of Islam. He went to Mohammed. As a Muslim there, he deserved the title of "from my family" of the Prophet Muhammad because of the valuable services he gave to Islam and humanity. It is known that Battal Gazi, who contributed greatly to the Islamization of Anatolia, was martyred in a war near Afyonkarahisar. It is estimated that the war in which he was martyred was the Siege of Amorium. Battal Gazi's tomb is located in Seyitgazi Tomb, about 100 km from Amorium.
