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'''Silifke''' ({{lang-el|Σελεύκεια}} - ''Seleukeia'', {{lang-la|Seleucia ad Calycadnum}}) is a town and district in south-central [[Mersin Province]], [[Turkey]], {{convert|80|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of the city of [[Mersin]], on the west end of [[Çukurova]].


Silifke is near the [[Mediterranean]] coast, on the banks of the [[Göksu]] River, which flows from the nearby [[Taurus Mountains]], surrounded by attractive countryside along the river banks.
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==Etymology==
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Silifke was formerly called '''Seleucia on the [[Calycadnus]]''' &mdash; variously cited over the centuries as ''Seleucia'' [in] ''Cilicia'', ''Seleucia'' [in,of] ''Isauria'', ''Seleucia Trachea'', and ''Seleucia Tracheotis'' &mdash;. The city took its name from its founder, King [[Seleucus I Nicator]].
The ancient Greek city of [[Olba (ancient city)|Olba]] was also within the boundaries of modern day Silifke.


==Economy==
Tüm Silifkelileri Safyamızı beğenmeye ve portalımızı ziyaret etmeye davet ediyoruz.
The economy of the district depends on agriculture, tourism and raising livestock. The town of Silifke is as a market for the coastal plain, which produces beans, peanuts, sesame, banana, orange, lemon, cotton, grapes, lentils, olives, tobacco, and canned fruits and vegetables. An irrigation project located at Silifke supplies the fertile Göksu delta. In recent years there has been a large investment in glasshouses for producing strawberries and other fruit and vegetables in the winter season.


Silifke is also an industrial town, well-connected with other urban areas and producing beverages, chemicals, clothes, footwear, glass, plastics, pottery, and textiles.


==Climate==
Silifke'de ne oluyorsa ilk önce siz öğrenin...
Silifke has a [[mediterranean climate]] with hot and dry summers and mild and wet winters.

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==Administrative structure==
===Towns===
* [[Akdere, Silifke|Akdere]]
* [[Arkum, Silifke|Arkum]]
* [[Atakent, Silifke|Atakent]]
* [[Atayurt, Silifke|Atayurt]]
* [[Narlıkuyu, Silifke|Narlıkuyu]]
* '''Silifke'''
* [[Taşucu, Silifke|Taşucu]]
* [[Uzuncaburç, Silifke|Uzuncaburç]]
* [[Yeşilovacık, Silifke|Yeşilovacık]]
===Villages===
{{columns-list|5|
* [[Ayaştürkmenli, Silifke|Ayaştürkmenli]]
* [[Bahçe, Silifke|Bahçe]]
* [[Bahçederesi, Silifke|Bahçederesi]]
* [[Balandız, Silifke|Balandız]]
* [[Bayındır, Silifke|Bayındır]]
* [[Bolacalıkoyuncu, Silifke|Bolacalıkoyuncu]]
* [[Burunucu, Silifke|Burunucu]]
* [[Bükdeğirmeni, Silifke|Bükdeğirmeni]]
* [[Canbazlı, Silifke|Canbazlı]]
* [[Cılbayır, Silifke|Cılbayır]]
* [[Demircili, Silifke|Demircili]]
* [[Ekşiler, Silifke|Ekşiler]]
* [[Evkafçiftliği, Silifke|Evkafçiftliği]]
* [[Gedikpınarı, Silifke|Gedikpınarı]]
* [[Gökbelen, Silifke|Gökbelen]]
* [[Gülümpaşalı, Silifke|Gülümpaşalı]]
* [[Gündüzler, Silifke|Gündüzler]]
* [[Hüseyinler, Silifke|Hüseyinler]]
* [[Hırmanlı, Silifke|Hırmanlı]]
* [[Işıklı, Silifke|Işıklı]]
* [[Karahacılı, Silifke|Karahacılı]]
* [[Karakaya, Silifke|Karakaya]]
* [[Kargıcak, Silifke|Kargıcak]]
* [[Kavak, Silifke|Kavak]]
* [[Keben, Silifke|Keben]]
* [[Kepez, Silifke|Kepez]]
* [[Keşlitürkmenli, Silifke|Keşlitürkmenli]]
* [[Kocaoluk, Silifke|Kocaoluk]]
* [[Kocapınar, Silifke|Kocapınar]]
* [[Kurtuluş, Silifke|Kurtuluş]]
* [[Kıca, Silifke|Kıca]]
* [[Kırtıl, Silifke|Kırtıl]]
* [[Kızılgeçit, Silifke|Kızılgeçit]]
* [[Mağara, Silifke|Mağara]]
* [[Nasrullah, Silifke|Nasrullah]]
* [[Nuru, Silifke|Nuru]]
* [[Ortaören, Silifke|Ortaören]]
* [[Ovacık, Silifke|Ovacık]]
* [[Pelitpınarı, Silifke|Pelitpınarı]]
* [[Sabak, Silifke|Sabak]]
* [[Sarıaydın, Silifke|Sarıaydın]]
* [[Senir, Silifke|Senir]]
* [[Seydili, Silifke|Seydili]]
* [[Seyranlık, Silifke|Seyranlık]]
* [[Sökün, Silifke|Sökün]]
* [[Sömek, Silifke|Sömek]]
* [[Tosmurlu, Silifke|Tosmurlu]]
* [[Türkmenuşağı, Silifke|Türkmenuşağı]]
* [[Ulugöz, Silifke|Ulugöz]]
* [[Uşakpınarı, Silifke|Uşakpınarı]]
* [[Yenibahçe, Silifke|Yenibahçe]]
* [[Yenisu, Silifke|Yenisu]]
* [[Yeğenli, Silifke|Yeğenli]]
* [[Çadırlı, Silifke|Çadırlı]]
* [[Çaltıbozkır, Silifke|Çaltıbozkır]]
* [[Çamlıbel, Silifke|Çamlıbel]]
* [[Çamlıca, Silifke|Çamlıca]]
* [[Çatak, Silifke|Çatak]]
* [[Çeltikçi, Silifke|Çeltikçi]]
* [[Ören, Silifke|Ören]]
* [[Özboynuinceli, Silifke|Özboynuinceli]]
* [[Öztürkmenli, Silifke|Öztürkmenli]]
* [[İmambekirli, Silifke|İmambekirli]]
* [[İmamlı, Silifke|İmamlı]]
* [[İmamuşağı, Silifke|İmamuşağı]]
* [[Şahmurlu, Silifke|Şahmurlu]]
}}

==History==

===Antiquity===
Located a few miles from the mouth of the Calycadnus (Greek: ''[[Kalykadnos]]'', currently Göksu) River, Seleucia was founded by [[Seleucus I Nicator]] in the early 3rd century BCE, one of several cities he named after himself. It is probable that there were already towns called [[Olba (ancient city)|Olbia (or Olba)]] and [[Hyria]] and that Seleucus I merely united them giving them his name. The city grew to include the nearby settlement of Holmi (in modern day [[Taşucu]]) which had been established earlier as an [[Ionia]]n colony but being on the coast was vulnerable to raiders and pirates.<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]]; [[Strabo]], XIV, 670)</ref> The new city up river was doubtless seen as safer against attacks from the sea so Seleucia achieved considerable commercial prosperity as a port for this corner of [[Cilicia]] (later named [[Isauria]]), and was even a rival of [[Tarsus (city)|Tarsus]].

Cilicia thrived as a province of the [[Roman Empire|Romans]], and Seluecia became a religious center with a renowned 2nd century [[Temple]] of [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]]. It was also the site of a noted school of [[philosophy]] and [[literature]], the birthplace of [[Peripatetic school|peripatetic]]s [[Athenaeus of Seleucia|Athenaeus]] and [[Xenarchus of Seleucia|Xenarchus]].<ref>[http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0314.html Classical Gazetteer, page 312<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The [[Silifke Bridge|stone bridge]] was built by the governor L.Octavius Memor in 77 AD. Around 300 AD [[Isauria]] was established as an independent state with Seleucia as the capital.

===Christianity===
Early [[Christian]] [[bishop]]s held a [[Council of Seleucia]] in<ref>(variously cited)</ref> 325, 359, and 410. Seleucia was famous for the tomb of the virgin Saint [[Acts of Paul and Thecla|Thecla of Iconium]], converted by [[Paul of Tarsus|Saint Paul]], who died at Seleucia,<ref>''[[Acts of Paul and Thecla|Acta Pauli et Theclae]]'', an [[apocryphal]] work of the 2nd century</ref> the tomb was one of the most celebrated in the Christian world and was restored several times, among others by the Emperor [[Zeno (emperor)|Zeno]] in the 5th century, and today the ruins of the tomb and sanctuary are called ''Meriamlik''.<ref>(''Denkschriften der k. Akadem. der Wissenschaft. philos.-histor. Klasse'', Vienna, XLIV, 6, 105-08)</ref> In the 5th century the imperial governor (''comes Isauriae'') in residence at Seleucia had two [[Roman legion|legions]] at his disposal, the [[Legio II Isaura]] and the [[Legio III Isaura]]. From this period, and perhaps later, dates the Christian [[necropolis]], west of the town, which contains many tombs of Christian soldiers. According to the ''[[Notitiae Episcopatuum|Notitia Episcopatuum]]'' of [[Antioch]], in the 6th century, the [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan of Seleucia]] had twenty-four suffragan sees.<ref>(Echoes d'Orient, X, 145)</ref>

In 705 Seleucia was captured by the Arab armies of Islam and was recovered by the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]]. Thus by 732 nearly all the [[ecclesiastical province]] of Isauria was incorporated into the [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]]; henceforth the province figures in the ''Notitiae'' of [[Byzantium]], but under the name of '''[[Pamphylia]]'''.

In the ''Notitiae'' of [[Leo VI the Wise]] (ca. 900) Seleucia had 22 suffragan bishoprics;<ref>[[Heinrich Gelzer]], ''Ungedruckte . . . Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum'', 557.</ref> in that of [[Constantine Porphyrogenitus]] (ca 940) it had 23.<ref>(''Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani'', ed. Gelzer, 76)</ref> In 968 Antioch again fell into the power of the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]], and with the Province of Isauria, Seleucia was allocated to the [[Patriarchate of Antioch]].<ref>(Gelzer, op. cit., 573)</ref> We know of several metropolitans of this see, the first of whom, [[Agapetus of Seleucia|Agapetus]], attended the [[First Council of Nicaea|Council of Nicaea]] in 325; [[Neonas of Seleucia|Neonas]] was at the Council of Seleucia in 359; [[Symposius of Seleucia|Symposius]] at the [[First Council of Constantinople|Council of Constantinople]] in 381; [[Dexianus of Seleucia|Dexianus]] at the [[First Council of Ephesus|Council of Ephesus]] in 431; [[Basil of Seleucia|Basil]], a celebrated orator and writer, whose conduct was rather ambiguous at the [[Second Council of Ephesus]] and at the beginning of the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451; [[Theodore of Seleucia|Theodore]] was at the [[Fifth Ecumenical Council]] in 553; [[Macrobius of Seleucia|Macrobius]] at the [[Sixth Ecumenical Council]] and the [[Council in Trullo]] in 692.

No longer a residential see, Seleucia in Isauria is now included in the list of [[titular see]]s of the [[Catholic Church]], which has made no new appointments of a [[titular bishop]] to this eastern see since the [[Second Vatican Council]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 968</ref>

===The Turkish period===
In the 11th century, the city was captured by the [[Seljuk Turks]]; they met with resistance and in 1137, Seluecia was besieged by [[Leo I of Armenia|Leon]] of [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Cilician Armenia]]. During this period of struggle between Armenians, Byzantines, Crusaders and Turks a stronghold was built on the heights overlooking the city. On June 10, 1190, the Emperor [[Frederick Barbarossa]] was drowned trying to cross the Calycadnus, near Seleucia during the [[Third Crusade]].

In the 13th century Seleucia was in the possession of the [[Hospitallers]], who lost it to the [[Karamanids|Karamanid]] Principality in the second half of the 13th century, and then it ended up in the hands of the [[Ottomans]] under general [[Gedik Ahmet Pasha]] in 1471.

Until 1933, Silifke was the capital of İçel Province, but then, İçel and Mersin provinces were merged. The merged province took the name of İçel but with its administrative centre at [[Mersin]]. Finally in 2002 the name of İçel was replaced with that of Mersin.

==Main sights==

* The caves of "Heaven and Hell" ('Cennet ve Cehennem'), which have collapsed in two places revealing deep holes in the ground.
*''Narlıkuyu'' is an attractive village, where people from [[Mersin]] come to eat fish and enjoy the seaside.
* The town of Silifke has many well preserved ancient ruins including:
** The prominent remains of the castle high on a rock above the town,

<gallery>
Image:Silifke castle walls.jpg|Outer walls of the castle of Silifke
Image:Silifke castle arrival.jpg|Help : this castle has no entry
Image:Silifke castle bar.jpg|Bar next to the castle of Silifke
Image:Silifke castle panel.jpg| Touristic panel describing the castle of Silifke
</gallery>
** The city walls,
** A large water tank ([[Tekir ambarı]]) cut into the rock,
** An extensive necropolis of rock-cut tombs with inscriptions.

==Life and culture==
The [[Turkmen people|Turkmen]] community of Silifke has a strong tradition of folk music and dance including songs such as ''The Yogurt of Silifke'' (where the dancers imitate the actions of making yogurt) and another one where they wave wooden spoons about as they dance.

The cuisine includes breakfast of leaves of unleavened bread (''bazlama'') with a dry sour cottage cheese (çökelek) or fried meats. Many other dishes feature [[bulgur wheat]]. The annual ''Silifke Yoghurt Festival'' takes place in May.

==See also==

*[[Acacius of Caesarea]]
*[[Akdere, Silifke|Akdere]]
*[[Assyrian Church of the East]]
*[[Atakent]]
*[[Atayurt]]
*[[Aya Tekla Church]]
*[[Council of Rimini]]
*[[Çukurova]]
*[[Dana Adası]]
*[[Eudoxius of Antioch]]
*[[Narlıkuyu]]
*[[Seleucid Empire]]
*[[Silifke Museum]]
*[[Uzuncaburç]]
*[[Taşucu]]
*[[Yeşilovacık]]
*[[Silifke Castle]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{1911}}
*{{Catholic|wstitle=Seleucia Trachea}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.silifke.org Silifke]{{tr icon}}
* [http://www.habersilifke.com HaberSilifke] {{tr icon}}
* [http://www.silifkemiz.net Silifke] {{tr icon}}
* [http://www.silifkem.com Silifke] {{tr icon}}
* [http://www.silifke.gov.tr/ District governor's official website] {{tr icon}}
* [http://www.silifke-bld.gov.tr/ District municipality's official website] {{tr icon}}
* [http://www.anatolia.luwo.be/Silifke.htm Silifke Guide and Photo Album]
* [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/metinkombe/Fotograflar.htm&date=2009-10-26+02:32:07 Photo Albums]
* [http://www.kumcenneti.com susanoğlu]
* [http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/silifke Extensive photo site of Silifke, the temple and nearby sights]
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Silifke
CountryTurkey
ProvinceMersin
Government
 • MayorBayram Ali Öngel (MHP)
 • KaymakamFatih Damatlar
Area
[1]
 • District2,571.84 km2 (992.99 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Urban
55,501
 • District
114,238
 • District density44/km2 (120/sq mi)
Websitewww.silifke-bld.gov.tr

Silifke (Greek: Σελεύκεια - Seleukeia, Latin: Seleucia ad Calycadnum) is a town and district in south-central Mersin Province, Turkey, 80 km (50 mi) west of the city of Mersin, on the west end of Çukurova.

Silifke is near the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of the Göksu River, which flows from the nearby Taurus Mountains, surrounded by attractive countryside along the river banks.

Etymology

Silifke was formerly called Seleucia on the Calycadnus — variously cited over the centuries as Seleucia [in] Cilicia, Seleucia [in,of] Isauria, Seleucia Trachea, and Seleucia Tracheotis —. The city took its name from its founder, King Seleucus I Nicator. The ancient Greek city of Olba was also within the boundaries of modern day Silifke.

Economy

The economy of the district depends on agriculture, tourism and raising livestock. The town of Silifke is as a market for the coastal plain, which produces beans, peanuts, sesame, banana, orange, lemon, cotton, grapes, lentils, olives, tobacco, and canned fruits and vegetables. An irrigation project located at Silifke supplies the fertile Göksu delta. In recent years there has been a large investment in glasshouses for producing strawberries and other fruit and vegetables in the winter season.

Silifke is also an industrial town, well-connected with other urban areas and producing beverages, chemicals, clothes, footwear, glass, plastics, pottery, and textiles.

Climate

Silifke has a mediterranean climate with hot and dry summers and mild and wet winters.

Climate data for Silifke
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 14
(57) 		15
(59) 		18
(64) 		23
(73) 		26
(79) 		30
(86) 		32
(90) 		33
(91) 		31
(88) 		27
(81) 		23
(73) 		16
(61) 		24
(75)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 6
(43) 		7
(45) 		8
(46) 		12
(54) 		15
(59) 		19
(66) 		21
(70) 		22
(72) 		20
(68) 		16
(61) 		13
(55) 		8
(46) 		14
(57)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 170
(6.7) 		70
(2.8) 		50
(2.0) 		60
(2.4) 		30
(1.2) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		10
(0.4) 		70
(2.8) 		170
(6.7) 		630
(25)
Average rainy days 9 5 4 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 38
Average relative humidity (%) 62 65 62 62 67 65 67 66 58 55 61 65 63
Source: Weatherbase[3]

Administrative structure

Towns

Villages

5

History

Antiquity

Located a few miles from the mouth of the Calycadnus (Greek: Kalykadnos, currently Göksu) River, Seleucia was founded by Seleucus I Nicator in the early 3rd century BCE, one of several cities he named after himself. It is probable that there were already towns called Olbia (or Olba) and Hyria and that Seleucus I merely united them giving them his name. The city grew to include the nearby settlement of Holmi (in modern day Taşucu) which had been established earlier as an Ionian colony but being on the coast was vulnerable to raiders and pirates.[4] The new city up river was doubtless seen as safer against attacks from the sea so Seleucia achieved considerable commercial prosperity as a port for this corner of Cilicia (later named Isauria), and was even a rival of Tarsus.

Cilicia thrived as a province of the Romans, and Seluecia became a religious center with a renowned 2nd century Temple of Jupiter. It was also the site of a noted school of philosophy and literature, the birthplace of peripatetics Athenaeus and Xenarchus.[5] The stone bridge was built by the governor L.Octavius Memor in 77 AD. Around 300 AD Isauria was established as an independent state with Seleucia as the capital.

Christianity

Early Christian bishops held a Council of Seleucia in[6] 325, 359, and 410. Seleucia was famous for the tomb of the virgin Saint Thecla of Iconium, converted by Saint Paul, who died at Seleucia,[7] the tomb was one of the most celebrated in the Christian world and was restored several times, among others by the Emperor Zeno in the 5th century, and today the ruins of the tomb and sanctuary are called Meriamlik.[8] In the 5th century the imperial governor (comes Isauriae) in residence at Seleucia had two legions at his disposal, the Legio II Isaura and the Legio III Isaura. From this period, and perhaps later, dates the Christian necropolis, west of the town, which contains many tombs of Christian soldiers. According to the Notitia Episcopatuum of Antioch, in the 6th century, the Metropolitan of Seleucia had twenty-four suffragan sees.[9]

In 705 Seleucia was captured by the Arab armies of Islam and was recovered by the Byzantines. Thus by 732 nearly all the ecclesiastical province of Isauria was incorporated into the Patriarchate of Constantinople; henceforth the province figures in the Notitiae of Byzantium, but under the name of Pamphylia.

In the Notitiae of Leo VI the Wise (ca. 900) Seleucia had 22 suffragan bishoprics;[10] in that of Constantine Porphyrogenitus (ca 940) it had 23.[11] In 968 Antioch again fell into the power of the Byzantines, and with the Province of Isauria, Seleucia was allocated to the Patriarchate of Antioch.[12] We know of several metropolitans of this see, the first of whom, Agapetus, attended the Council of Nicaea in 325; Neonas was at the Council of Seleucia in 359; Symposius at the Council of Constantinople in 381; Dexianus at the Council of Ephesus in 431; Basil, a celebrated orator and writer, whose conduct was rather ambiguous at the Second Council of Ephesus and at the beginning of the Council of Chalcedon in 451; Theodore was at the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553; Macrobius at the Sixth Ecumenical Council and the Council in Trullo in 692.

No longer a residential see, Seleucia in Isauria is now included in the list of titular sees of the Catholic Church, which has made no new appointments of a titular bishop to this eastern see since the Second Vatican Council.[13]

The Turkish period

In the 11th century, the city was captured by the Seljuk Turks; they met with resistance and in 1137, Seluecia was besieged by Leon of Cilician Armenia. During this period of struggle between Armenians, Byzantines, Crusaders and Turks a stronghold was built on the heights overlooking the city. On June 10, 1190, the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was drowned trying to cross the Calycadnus, near Seleucia during the Third Crusade.

In the 13th century Seleucia was in the possession of the Hospitallers, who lost it to the Karamanid Principality in the second half of the 13th century, and then it ended up in the hands of the Ottomans under general Gedik Ahmet Pasha in 1471.

Until 1933, Silifke was the capital of İçel Province, but then, İçel and Mersin provinces were merged. The merged province took the name of İçel but with its administrative centre at Mersin. Finally in 2002 the name of İçel was replaced with that of Mersin.

Main sights

  • The caves of "Heaven and Hell" ('Cennet ve Cehennem'), which have collapsed in two places revealing deep holes in the ground.
  • Narlıkuyu is an attractive village, where people from Mersin come to eat fish and enjoy the seaside.
  • The town of Silifke has many well preserved ancient ruins including:
    • The prominent remains of the castle high on a rock above the town,
  • Outer walls of the castle of Silifke
    Outer walls of the castle of Silifke
  • Help : this castle has no entry
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  • Bar next to the castle of Silifke
    Bar next to the castle of Silifke
  • Touristic panel describing the castle of Silifke
    Touristic panel describing the castle of Silifke
    • The city walls,
    • A large water tank (Tekir ambarı) cut into the rock,
    • An extensive necropolis of rock-cut tombs with inscriptions.

Life and culture

The Turkmen community of Silifke has a strong tradition of folk music and dance including songs such as The Yogurt of Silifke (where the dancers imitate the actions of making yogurt) and another one where they wave wooden spoons about as they dance.

The cuisine includes breakfast of leaves of unleavened bread (bazlama) with a dry sour cottage cheese (çökelek) or fried meats. Many other dishes feature bulgur wheat. The annual Silifke Yoghurt Festival takes place in May.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. ^ "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  3. ^ http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weatherall.php3?s=3371&refer=&units=metric&cityname=Silifke-Turkey
  4. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium; Strabo, XIV, 670)
  5. ^ Classical Gazetteer, page 312
  6. ^ (variously cited)
  7. ^ Acta Pauli et Theclae, an apocryphal work of the 2nd century
  8. ^ (Denkschriften der k. Akadem. der Wissenschaft. philos.-histor. Klasse, Vienna, XLIV, 6, 105-08)
  9. ^ (Echoes d'Orient, X, 145)
  10. ^ Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte . . . Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, 557.
  11. ^ (Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, ed. Gelzer, 76)
  12. ^ (Gelzer, op. cit., 573)
  13. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 968
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