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Province, 117 CE
Cilicia
Imperial province, praetorian legateCapital: TarsusRoman since 64 BCE
Once notorious as a pirate haven Pompey had to clear out by force in 67 BCE, by 117 a settled province anchoring the empire's southeastern approach to Syria and the Cilician Gates through the Taurus mountains. Trajan died at Selinus, on this province's own coast, on 11 August 117 — the exact date this whole map is frozen on.
Organized by Pompey in 64 BCE as part of his settlement of the East, after clearing the Cilician pirates in 67 BCE.
No individually mapped places in Cilicia yet — the province still shows on the map's boundary layer.
Sources
- Cassius Dio, Roman History 68.33
- Historia Augusta, Hadrian 4.7
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey's_Eastern_Settlement
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