Pisidia

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Pisidia

(pĭsĭd`ēə, pī–), ancient country of S Asia Minor, S of Phrygia and N of Pamphylia. It was a mountainous country, traversed by the Taurus range. Its warlike tribes maintained their independence until the country was incorporated into a Roman province in the early 1st cent. A.D.
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1,2,1) that he is taking the Greek mercenaries east to fight the Pisidians, as well as all the subsequent fabrications and examples of subterfuge with which he brings them ultimately to Babylon.
The Anabasis of Chaereas and Callirhoe
But in contrast to Weiskopf's silence on the broader aspects of the rebellion, Mosley gave serious consideration to the uprisings of the Lycians, Pisidians, Pamphilians, Cilicians, Syrians, and Phoenicians.
The So-called "Great Satrap's Revolt," 366-360 B.C.: Concerning Local Instability in the Achaemenid Far West

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