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Cilicia (/ s ɪ ˈ l ɪ ʃ ə /) [3] [note 1] is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrated mostly at the Cilician plain (Turkish: Çukurova).
Cilicia (/ sɪˈlɪʃiə /) [1] was an early Roman province, located on what is today the southern (Mediterranean) coast of Turkey. Cilicia was annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey, as a consequence of his victory over the Cilician pirates and in the Third Mithridatic War. It was subdivided by Diocletian in around 297, and it ...
Nagidos. Nagidos (Ancient Greek: Νάγιδος; Latin: Nagidus) was an ancient city of Cilicia. In ancient times it was located between Anemurion to the west and Arsinoe to the east. [1] Today its ruins are found on the hill named Paşabeleni at the mouth of the Sini Cay (Bozyazı Dere) near Bozyazı in Mersin Province, Turkey.
Armenian presence in Cilicia dates back to the first century BC, when under Tigranes the Great, the Kingdom of Armenia expanded and conquered a vast region in the Levant. In 83 BC, the Greek aristocracy of Seleucid Syria, weakened by a bloody civil war, offered their allegiance to the ambitious Armenian king. [11]
Soli (Cilicia) Coordinates: 36°44′31″N 34°32′24″E. Roman colonnade at the site. Soli (Ancient Greek: Σόλοι, Sóloi), often rendered Soli/Pompeiopolis (Ancient Greek: Πομπηϊούπολις), was an ancient city and port in Cilicia, 11 km west of Mersin in present-day Turkey.
Fortress of Korikos in Cilician Armenia built c. the thirteenth century. Corycus (Greek: Κώρυκος; also transliterated Corycos or Korykos; Armenian: Կոռիկոս, romanized: Koṙikos; Turkish: Kız Kalesi, lit. "maiden castle") was an ancient city in Cilicia Trachaea, Anatolia, located at the mouth of the valley called Şeytan deresi; the site is now occupied by the town of Kızkalesi ...
Julius Caesar taken captive by Cilician pirates (Henri De Montaut, 1865) Cilician pirates dominated the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompey in 67–66 BC. Because there were notorious pirate strongholds in Cilicia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), the term "Cilician" was long used ...
Issus (Cilicia) The geographical location of Issus is along a strategic bottleneck between inland mountainous terrain on a coastal plain within the current Turkish province of Hatay. Issus (Latin; Phoenician: Sissu) or Issos (Greek: Ἰσσός, Issós, or Ἰσσοί, Issoí) was an ancient settlement on the strategic coastal plain straddling ...