The ruins mostly date from the Roman and Byzantine periods and include a theater, baths, city walls, and a necropolis.

Catalogues of coins of Tripolis generally refer to the city as belonging to Lydia.

[5] A website on which various contributors give news of Turkish archaeology treats Tripolis as part of Phrygia.

[citation needed] The city of Tripolis was the seat of an ancient bishopric,[8] suffragan to Sardis.

Very little is known of the Bishopric, but we retain the names of some bishops, including: The see is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees,[13] which treats it as part of the late Roman province of Lydia.