NOTES ON NATURAL RESOURCES OF CILICIA: A CONTRIBUTION TO LOCAL HISTORY

Ancient and modern authors seem to consider Cilicia a prosperous region that is captured well by the words of Xenophon, in regard to the expedition of Cyrus, when he descends into Cilicia; “to a large and beautiful plain, well-watered and full of trees of all sorts and vines; it produces an abundance of sesame, millet, panic, wheat, and barley, and it is surrounded on every side, from sea to sea, by a lofty and formidable range of mountains” (Anabasis, I,2,22). Then Cyrus marches to Tarsus, “a large and prosperous city, where the palace of Synnesis, the king of Cilicians, was situated, and through the middle of the city flows a river named the Cydnus, two plethra in width” (ibid 23).

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