Mersin Province
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Mersin Province, formerly İçel Province, is a province and metropolitan municipality in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. Its area is 16,010 km2, and its populatio
Mersin coastline
Mersin skyline
Mersin Mediterranean sea shore
Mersin Refah monument
Cilicia
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Cilicia is a geographical region of southern Anatolia in West Asia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia borders Pamphylia to the west, Lycaonia and Cappadoc
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…heavy and flooding is a problem in many areas, but it never snows on the coast, only in the mountainous areas. In antiquity, this coast was part of Cilicia, named for a Phoenician or Assyrian prince that had settled here. Trade from Syria and Mesopotamia over the mountains to central Anatolia passed through…
Western part of the Achaemenid Empire
Probable captives from Cilicia, on the Nasiriyah stele of Naram-Sin, circa 2200 BC.
Fugitive slave treaty between Idrimi of Alalakh (now Tell Atchana) and Pilliya of Kizzuwatna (now Cilicia), (c. 1480 BC) Ref:131447 .
Coin of Mazaios. Satrap of Cilicia, 361/0-334 BC. Tarsos, Cilicia.