The routes prepared within the scope of the website; It has been prepared within the scope of TR52/21/ TD/0024 Seydişehir Lycia and Via Sebaste Walking Paths Research and Promotion Project implemented by Seydişehir District Governorship with the support of T.C. Mevlana Development Agency. The purpose of this website is to raise awareness for hiking lovers. The routing process for Via Sebaste (King's Road) was prepared by examining academic studies.

Seydişehir Via Sebaste Trekking Route

International researcher Mark Wilson has done detailed research on Via Sebaste in his article published at Cambridge University. In the article titled “Antioch, the Route of Paul's First Journey to Pisidia”, the entire Via Sebaste route is shown with the map below.

The eastern route starts in Perga and crosses the Cestrus (Aksu) River and passes through the Pamphylian plain towards southeast. Passing just south of Sillyum, crossing the Eurymedon River (Köprüçay) at Aspendus, the main coastal road extends to Side, where the route turns north over the Taurus range to Caralis Lake (Lake Beyşehir). It continues northeast of Side by following the Melas (Manavgat) Stream valley descending into Caralis Lake. After passing Akseki, it comes to the Trogitis Lake (Suğla Lake) basin near Seydişehir. The highway largely follows this route.

Ormerod believed that the land of Orondeis was probably the result of Servilius Isauricus' conquest of the hinterlands in the 4th millennium BC. It was 75 years. In the Caralis basin, the Orondia tribe had two communities: Mistea and Pappa. Mistea, later renamed Claudiocaesarea (present-day Beyşehir), was located in the southeast corner of Caralis. Here the road forked and the northern branch advanced along the east coast to Pisidia Antioch.

The lake with which it was connected with the Via Sebaste in Neapolis, the fork to Iconium came northeast to Pappa and was later renamed Tiberiopolis, where it also connected with the Via Sebaste. From Neapolis the road left the shores of Caralis and passed in a straight line through rolling hills to Pisidia Antioch.

Via Sebaste East route:

Perga Aspendus : 19 miles

Aspendus Etenna via Side : 34 miles

Etenna Mistea/Claudiocaesarea :42 miles

Mistea Neapolis

Neapolis Pisidian Antioch             :30 miles

Perga - Pisidian Antioch Total 149 miles

Via Sebaste Central route:

Perga Island                     

On the island Timbriada : 17 miles

Timbriada Malos : 13 miles

Malos Dabenae

Dabenae Pisidian Antioch :16 miles

Perga - Pisidian Antioch Total 114 miles

Via Sebaste West route:

Perga Climax Pass : 23 miles

Climax Pass Komama : 19 miles

Comama Apollonia : 71 miles

Apollonia Pisidian Antioch :43 miles

Perga - Pisidian Antioch Total 156 miles

(M. Wilson, The Route of Paul's First Journey to Pisidian Antioch, Cambridge University Press, New Test. Stud. 55, pp. 471–483).

Wilson, in his research; The Via Sebaste road, which is divided into three parts, has determined a route of 419 miles, approximately 675 km in total. The current Suğla Lake (Trogitis Lake) was accepted as the beginning of the Via Sebaste road determined by Wilson in the routing study for Seydişehir.