Kilikiai Pylai
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 30, 2020 04:03 PM
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History
The Cilician Gates, a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the gorge of the Gökoluk River.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648670
37.28333, 34.83333
- Representative Locations:
- GeoNames location of Gülek Bogazi (modern) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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- Cilician Gate (English, modern)
- Gülek Boğazı (Gülek Bogazi: Turkish, modern)
- Πύλαι Κιλίκιαι (Kilikiai Pylai: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Less than certain: Harrua located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Mulî (mountain) located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Qumasi located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Tunni located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Ušnanis located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
pass, "gates" (landform)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 66 F2 Kilikiai Pylai
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gülek Bogazi
S. Mitchell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kilikiai Pylai: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648670> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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