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Taurus
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[1] Southern Anatolian coastal mountain range

Southern Anatolian coastal mountain range, today the Toros Dağları; it extends from Caria and Lycia in the west (Western T. with the Bey Dağları, 3086 m), through Cilicia (Middle T. with the Kalı Dağ, 3734 m), from where the Amanus branches off to the south-east and the Anti-T. to the…

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Olshausen, Eckart (Stuttgart), Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum), Lakmann, Marie-Luise (Münster) and Portmann, Werner (Berlin), “Taurus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 02 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_brill140020>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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