Historical place profile
Anazarbos/Caesarea/Ioustin(ian)oupolis
Anazarbos or Anazarbus was an ancient city of Cilicia; its extensive multi-period archaeological remains are located adjacent to the modern village of Dilekkaya in the Kozan district of Turkey's Adana province. Anazarbos became the capital of Cilicia Secunda in the later Roman empire. The city was rebuilt in 527 following an earthquake and destroyed by Mamluk forces in 1374.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:658378
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:658378
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.256021, 35.898447
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Anazarbos or Anazarbus was an ancient city of Cilicia; its extensive multi-period archaeological remains are located adjacent to the modern village of Dilekkaya in the Kozan district of Turkey's Adana province. Anazarbos became the capital of Cilicia Secunda in the later Roman empire. The city was rebuilt in 527 following an earthquake and destroyed by Mamluk forces in 1374.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 B2 Anazarbos/Caesarea/Ioustin(ian)oupolis
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Research path
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