a province on the S. coast of Asia Minor, was bounded on the N. by Pisidia, on the E. by Cilicia, and on the W. by Lycia and a part of Phrygia. Its limits appear to have never been accurately defined, and to have been different at different times. However, its northern boundary was generally held to be Mount Taurus; and, according to Strabo, it extended from Olbia on the W. to Ptolemais on the E. The inhabitants of Pamphylia, as the name of the country imports, were at first a collection of many different races. These were recruited in course of time by Cilicians and bands of emigrant Greeks. Yet the smallness of the country rendered it unable to play any important part in history. Along with the rest of Asia Minor, it fell successively into the power of the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. The principal towns of Pamphylia were Olbia, Attalia (Adalia), Perge, Aspendus, and Side (Eski Adalia); its chief rivers were the Catarbactes (Duden-Su), Cestrus (Ak-Su), Eurymedon (Kapri-Su), and Melas (Scheher-Su).