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10 unusual facts about Cilicia


240 BC

Aratus, Greek poet from Soli in Cilicia, best remembered for his poem on astronomy Phaenomena (b. c. 315 BC)

Alphons Barb

Under the tutelage of Wilhelm Kubitschek, he finally received his doctorate at the age of 25 for his thesis on the coinage of Cilicia.

Amanita

The name is possibly derived from Amanon, a mountain in Cilicia.

Aniran

This is also reflected in Shapur's inscription on the wall of the Ka'ba-ye Zardosht, where the emperor includes Syria, Cappadocia, and Cilicia - all three previously captured from the Romans - in his list of Anērān territories.

Casemates of İbrahim Pasha

He asked for the governorship of Çukurova (Cilicia) in addition to his semi autonomous possessions in Egypt.

Cilicia

In fact, the Cilician highlands were densely populated by Armenian peasants in small but prosperous towns and villages such as Hadjin and Zeitun, two mountainous areas where autonomy was maintained until the 19th century.

Principality of Antioch

Raymond, like his predecessors, attacked the Byzantine province of Cilicia.

Tancred expanded the borders of the Principality, seizing the cities of Tarsus and Latakia from the Byzantine Empire.

Bohemond III's son, also named Bohemond, had become count of Tripoli after the Battle of Hattin, and Bohemond III's eldest son Raymond married an Armenian princess in 1194.

Soli

Soli, Cilicia, an ancient city in Cilicia, later renamed Pompeiopolis


Adata

Adata, Greek name of Hadath, or full name Al-Ḥadath al-Ḥamrā, a medieval fortress town near the Taurus Mountains in Cilicia, (modern southeastern Turkey), which played an important role in the Byzantine–Arab Wars

Armenian Renaissance

The Kingdom of Lesser Armenia, which made notable progress regeneration in Cilicia, did not fare much better at the hands of the Mamelukes of Egypt.

Armenians in Lebanon

The Catholicos, the leader of the Holy See of Cilicia, has his summer residence in Bikfaya in the Matn District also north of Beirut.

Böğrüeğri, Tarsus

It is situated in the Taurus Mountains (Cilicia of the antiquity) plains at the north bank of Berdan Dam reservoir.

Cataonia

It is described by Strabo, who had visited it, as a level plain surrounded by mountains: on the south by the Amanus, and on the west by the Antitaurus, which branches off from the Cilician Taurus and contains deep narrow valleys (in one of which was situated Comana, a considerable city on the river Sarus, which flows through the gaps of the Taurus into Cilicia and the Mediterranean).

Cyclamen coum

The species name coum more likely refers to Koa or Quwê (an ancient region in eastern Cilicia, now part of Armenia and southeastern Turkey), which is part of the species' natural range, than to the island of Kos, where the species does not grow.

Dytilaos, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii

Dytilaos, was a Tetrarch of the Tectosagii and the father of Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii and King of Cilicia Trachae.

Geography of Turkey

Toward the east, the extensive Çukurova Plain (historically known as the Cilician Plain) around Adana, Turkey's fifth most populous city, consist largely of reclaimed flood lands.

Karl Friedrich Neumann

Vahram's Chronicle of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia (1831)

Leo V

Leo V, King of Armenia (1342 – 1393), of the House of Lusignan; last Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Mongol conquest of Anatolia

Hearing of the disaster at Köse Dağ, Hethum I of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia quickly made his peace with the Mongols in 1243 and sent his brother Sembat to the Mongol court of Karakorum in 1247 to negotiate an alliance with the Mongolian Emperor Güyük.

Nicosia Armenian school

The current building was built between 1971-1972 by the Technical Services of the Ministry of Education and was inaugurated on 12 November 1972 by Archbishop Makarios III and Catholicos Khoren I of Cilicia.

Noël Garnier-Duplessix

After the war he was posted to Cilicia in the Franco-Turkish War of 1920-1 where he argued against early withdrawal of troops following the March 1921 Cilicia Peace Treaty.

Polemon Eupator

When Polemon II died in 74, Polemon nor Rhoemetalces never succeeded their father to the Kingship of Cilicia, as Cilicia became a Roman province.

Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus

In 57 Thrasea supported the cause of the Cilicians accusing their late governor, Cossutianus Capito, of extortion, and the prosecution succeeded apparently largely through his influence.

Rheometalces Philocaesar

When Polemon II died in 74, Rhoemetalces nor Polemon never succeeded their father to the Kingship of Cilicia, as Cilicia became a Roman province.

Riccoldo da Monte di Croce

After visiting the Jordan River and the Dead Sea he left Palestine by the coast road, retracing his steps to Acre and passing on by Tripoli and Tortosa into Cilicia.

Sarkis Dkhrouni

His father was killed during the Armenian Genocide, Dkhrouni and his mother survived, and returned to Cilicia.

Sason

The region was ruled by the Mamikonian dynasty from around 772 until 1189/1190, when the Mamikonians moved to Cilicia after being dispossessed by Shah-Armen.

Tiglath-Pileser I

In his fifth year, Tiglath-Pileser attacked Comana in Cappadocia, and placed a record of his victories engraved on copper plates in a fortress he built to secure his Cilician conquests.