← Back to the map
Province, 117 CE
Cilicia
Imperial province, praetorian legateCapital: Tarsus
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.
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
Roman Maps shows the empire frozen at 11 August 117 CE, the day Trajan died — its moment of greatest territorial extent. Explore the full map →