ATTALIA ăt’ ə lī’ ə (̓Ατταλεία, city of Attalus). A seaport in Pamphylia (q.v.) in the S of Asia Minor.

Returning to Antioch from their missionary journey, Paul and Barnabas embarked at Attalia (Acts 14:25), where they had presumably landed on their way from Paphos to Perga (13:13).

The city was founded by Attalus II of Pergamum between 165 and 138 b.c., and subsequently passed under Rom. domination. It became an important seaport, minting its own coins, and in the time of Paul was apparently in the province of Lycia-Pamphylia.

Attalia later became a Rom. colony, and today, with the name Andaliya (Antalya, Adalia), it is one of the principal seaports of Turkey.

There was another city called Attalia near Thyatira.

Bibliography A. H. M. Jones, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces (1937), 130-145.