Karataş
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Karataş is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 862 km2, and its population is 23,499. The town itself has 10,293 inhabitants. It is on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey,
Port of Karataş 03
Coins belonging to the ancient city of Mallos, which was an ancient city established at the mouth of the Ceyhan river within the borders of the Kızıltahta village of today's Adana/Karataş district.
Mallus (Cilicia)
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Mallus was an ancient city of Cilicia Campestris lying near the mouth of the Pyramus river, in Anatolia. In ancient times, the city was situated at the mouth of the Pyramus, on a hill opposite Magarsa
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…Pyramos, supplying an important military and trading route into the plain of Cilicia, and also providing access to the sea for the river towns, like Mallus. In 333 BCE, just before the battle of Issus, Alexander the Great sacrificed here at a temple that, by interpretatio graeca, he took to be of Athena…
Persian Achaemenid Empire coin minted in Mallus, dated c. 390–385 BC
Coin minted in Mallus during the Roman Empire under Commodus, (dated c. AD 177-192) showing city founder Amphilochus I of Argos on the reverse.
Coastline near Mallus