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[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Pompeius | Rome (Καστάβαλα; Kastábala). Situated on the north-eastern edge of the Cilician plain near  Karatepe, C. was a cult centre of Artemis  Perasia (Str. 12,2,7; [2]; the goddess Kubaba ( Cybele) of Kaštabalay is already mentioned in an Aramaic text of the 5th/4th cents. [1]). From the time of Antiochus [6] IV, C. was a polis, bearing the name of Hierapolis (coins). From about 63 BC-AD 17, it was probably the seat of a dynasty of client kings (Tarkondimotos). Roman buildings: theatre, stadium, columned street, aqueduct,…

[German version] First established in 102 BC as the   provincia of a Roman praetor (M. Antony) for the purpose of fighting piracy. The command was repeatedly renewed (e.g. 100 BC: IK 41,31) [1. 266] but the subjugation of the inhabitants …

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[German version] (Ἀμανός; Amanós, today Nur Daǧları), mountain range in north north-east-south south-west direction on the Cilician-Syrian border between the basin of Germanicaea (today Maraş) and Cape Scopelus (today Hınzır Burnu). Crossings: Bahçe pass, Beylan /Belen pass. Seat of the Eleutherocilices defeated by Cicer…

(Πύλαι Κιλίκιαι; Pýlai Kilíkiai). [German version] [1] Narrow passage through the Taurus Narrow passage through the  Taurus at a height of 1,050 m, these day deeply buried underneath the motorway, modern Gülek Boğazı, through which passed the road from Tyana/Cappadocia to Tarsus/Cilicia (Str. 12,2,7); this pass played an important role i.a. in Xenophon's Anabasis (Xen. An. 1,4,4; 401 BC), during Alexander the Great's campaign (cf. Arr. Anab. 2,4,3; 333 BC), and in the fight of Septimius Severus against Pescennius Niger (Cass. Dio 74,7,1; AD193/4)…

(Κίλικες, Κιλικία; Kílikes, Kilikía). [German version] …