Ancient Cilicia was naturally divided into Cilicia Trachaea and Cilicia Pedias divided by the Lamas Su.

The Greeks invented for Cilicia an eponymous Hellene founder in the purely mythic Cilix, but the historic founder of the dynasty that ruled Cilicia Pedias was Mopsus, identifiable in Phoenician sources as Mpš, the founder of Mopsuestia who gave his name to an oracle nearby.

Cilicia Trachea (" rugged Cilicia "— Greek: Κιλικία Τραχεία ; the Assyrian Khilakku or Khilikku, also sometimes transcribed as Hilakku or Hilikku, classical " Cilicia ") is a rugged mountain district formed by the spurs of Taurus, which often terminate in rocky headlands with small sheltered harbors, a feature which, in classical times, made the coast a string of havens for pirates, but which in the Middle Ages led to its occupation by Genoese and Venetian traders.

Two different groups are called Muški in the Assyrian sources ( Diakonoff 1984: 115 ), one from the 12th to 9th centuries, located near the confluence of the Arsanias and the Euphrates (" Eastern Mushki "), and the other in the 8th to 7th centuries, located in Cappadocia and Cilicia (" Western Mushki ").

Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

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

In antiquity, Cilicia (;, Armenian: Կիլիկիա, Greek: Κιλικία, Middle Persian: klkyʾy, Parthian: kylkyʾ ) was the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau.

By dexterous management and large promises he overcame the misgivings of the Greek troops over the length and danger of the war ; a Spartan fleet of thirty-five triremes sent to Cilicia opened the passes of the Amanus into Syria and conveyed to him a Spartan detachment of 700 men under Cheirisophus.

Seleucus IV Philopator ( Greek: Σέλευκος Δ ' Φιλοπάτωρ ), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 187 BC to 175 BC over a realm consisting of Syria ( now including Cilicia and Judea ), Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Nearer Iran ( Media and Persia ).

Theodore was of Byzantine Greek descent born in Tarsus in Cilicia, a Greek-speaking diocese of the Byzantine Empire.

The last " Greek " philosophers of the revived Akademia in the 6th century were drawn from various parts of the Hellenistic cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture ( see koine ): Five of the seven Akademia philosophers mentioned by Agathias were Syriac in their cultural origin: Hermias and Diogenes ( both from Phoenicia ), Isidorus of Gaza, Damascius of Syria, Iamblichus of Coele-Syria and perhaps even Simplicius of Cilicia.

It was followed by a Greek attack on Cilicia ; and despairing of his own resources, in late 1104 Bohemond returned to Europe for reinforcements in order to defend his position.

Crantor (, gen .: Κράντορος ; died 276 / 5 BC ) was a Greek philosopher, of the Old Academy, probably born around the middle of the 4th century BC, at Soli in Cilicia.

Ancient Athenians considered the dialect of the inhabitants of their colony Soli in Cilicia to be a corrupted form of their own pure Attic dialect, full of " solecisms " ( Greek: σολοικισμοί, soloikismoí ; Sing.

Mopsuestia ( Greek Μοψουεστία Mopsou ( h ) estia ), later Mamistra, is the ancient city of Cilicia Campestris on the Pyramus ( now Ceyhan Nehri ) river located approximately 20 km east of ancient Antiochia in Cilicia ( present-day Adana in Adana Province, Turkey ).

Crates, of Mallus in Cilicia ( eastern part of modern day Mediterranean Region, Turkey ), was a Greek language grammarian and Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BC, leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum.

Whatever the conditions in which Thoros entered Cilicia, he found it occupied by many Greek garrisons.

The recovery before 1150 of the Taurus fortresses by Thoros had not seriously affected Greek power, but his conquest of Mamistra in 1151 and the rest of Cilicia in 1152 had necessitated a great expedition.

Intermittent fighting erupted everywhere, harassing the Greek forces throughout Cilicia.

He welcomed the Greek Patriarch of Antioch, Symeon II to Cilicia, and he gave much of the Latin church lands there to the Greeks.

Most Northern-MENA “ Melkites ” or “ Rûms ”, can trace their ethnocultural heritage to the Greek and Macedonian settlers and Hellenized Judeo-Christians of the past, founders of the original “ Antiochian Greek ” communities of Cilicia and Northwestern Syria.

Paul took Silas as his companion, and journeyed through Syria and Cilicia ; while Barnabas took John Mark to visit Cyprus ( 15: 36-41 ).

; Simplicius of Cilicia

** Philotas looking after Cilicia ;

* Envoys from Cilicia come to Rome to accuse their late governor, Cossutianus Captio, of extortion ; the Roman Senate is supported in the case by Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus.

* Florianus becomes Roman Emperor ; he breaks off his campaign against the Heruli and marches from the Bosporus with support from the Roman legions in Britain, Gaul, Spain and Italy to fight a indecisive battle with Marcus Aurelius Probus in Cilicia.

In the winter of 1158 – 59, he marched to Cilicia at the head of a huge army ; the speed of his advance ( Manuel had hurried on ahead of the main army with 500 cavalry ) was such that he managed to surprise the Armenian Thoros of Cilicia, who had participated in the attack on Cyprus.

At the Donations of Alexandria in late 34 BC, following Antony's conquest of Armenia, Cleopatra and Caesarion were crowned co-rulers of Egypt and Cyprus ; Alexander Helios was crowned ruler of Armenia, Media, and Parthia ; Cleopatra Selene II was crowned ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya ; and Ptolemy Philadelphus was crowned ruler of Phoenicia, Syria, and Cilicia.

* Berenice, 81 AD who first married her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, and afterwards lived with her brother Agrippa, reputedly in an incestuous relationship, and subsequently married Polamo, king of Cilicia ; she is alluded to by Juvenal ; Bernice also had a common-law relationship with the Roman emperor Titus.

* Egypt's victories solidify the kingdom's position as the undisputed naval power of the eastern Mediterranean ; the Ptolemaic sphere of power now extends over the Cyclades to Samothrace, and the harbours and coastal towns of Cilicia Trachea, Pamphylia, Lycia and Caria.

In 713 BC Sargon stayed at home ; his troops took, among others, Karalla, Tabal and Cilicia.

Godfrey was believed to have possessed immense physical strength ; it was said that in Cilicia he wrestled a bear and won, and that he once beheaded a camel with one blow of his sword.

A politique, Bohemond was resolved to engineer the enthusiasm of the crusaders to his own ends ; and when his nephew Tancred left the main army at Heraclea Cybistra, and attempted to establish a footing in Cilicia, the movement may have been already intended as a preparation for Bohemond's eastern principality.

When the Romans first encountered the Isaurians ( early in the 1st century BC ), they regarded Cilicia Trachea as part of Isauria, which thus extended to the Mediterranean Sea ; and this extension of the name continued to be in common use for two centuries.

From the 10th to late 7th centuries BC, much of Anatolia ( particularly the east, central, south western and south eastern regions ) fell to the Neo Assyrian Empire, including all of the Neo-Hittite and Syro-Hittite states, Phrygia, Urartu, Nairi, Tabal, Cilicia, Commagene, Caria, Lydia, the Cimmerians and Scythians and swathes of Cappadocia.

* Quwê, an Assyrian vassal state or province at various times from the 9th century BC to shortly after the death of Ashurbanipal around 627 BCE in the lowlands of eastern Cilicia

:( c ) settlers, who went to Shechem and the other locations from Cilicia, a region in Asia Minor, which is called Kue in the Bible () and huwi in cuneiform sources.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.

* Constantine II, King of Armenia ( died 1344 ), first Latin King of Armenian Cilicia of the Lusignan dynasty

He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates ' teaching and travelled and studied widely including such destinations as Smyrna ( now Izmir ), Corinth, Crete, Cilicia ( now Çukurova ), Cyprus, and finally the great medical school of Alexandria, exposing himself to the various schools of thought in medicine.

The term normally does not include Anatolia ( although at times Cilicia may be included ), the Caucasus Mountains, or any part of the Arabian Peninsula proper.

He distributed kingdoms between his children: Alexander Helios was named king of Armenia, Media and Parthia ( which were never conquered by Rome ), his twin Selene got Cyrenaica and Libya, and the young Ptolemy Philadelphus was awarded Syria and Cilicia.

* Lamides or Lamusides ( Lamos River in Cilicia ), possible nurses of infant Dionysus

He is succeeded by his son, Seleucus IV, who inherits an empire consisting of Syria ( including Cilicia and Palestine ), Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Media and Persia.

* Archelaus of Cilicia ( died 38 ), son to the above and Client King under Roman Emperor Tiberius in the 1st century AD

* Lycus ( river of Cilicia ), flows from the Pyramus to the Pinarus

Stephanus of Byzantium, in one passage, refers to him as " Διογένης ὁ Λαερτιεύς " ( Diogenes ho Laertieus ), implying that he was the native of some town, perhaps the Laerte in Caria, or the one in Cilicia.

In the alternative account of the origin of Typhon ( Typhoeus ), the Homeric Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus or Mars, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and confined there in the enigmatic Arima, or land of the Arimoi, en Arimois ( Iliad, ii.

* Lamos ( Cilicia ), a river in Cilicia, now called Limonlu Çayı in Mersin Province, Turkey

Besides carrying out his political duties ( embassies to Cilicia in 1295 and to Serbia in 1299 ), Metochites continued to study and to write.

* His Holiness ( abbreviation HH ), oral address Your Holiness — the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Patriarch of Peć and the Serbs, Catholicos of All Armenians, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and some other patriarchs of Christian Church.