Perga

Perga was the inland capital of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor, about 12 km from its Mediterranean port of Attalia. On his first missionary journey Paul and Barnabas landed here from Cyprus — and it was at Perga that John Mark abruptly turned back and went home to Jerusalem (Acts 13:13). Paul never forgot the abandonment; years later he refused to take Mark on the second journey, and Paul and Barnabas split over it (Acts 15:36-39). Paul and Barnabas pressed inland through Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. On the return leg they finally "spoke the word in Perga" before sailing back to Antioch in Syria (Acts 14:25).