Erana
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 25, 2024 04:01 PM
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History
An ancient city in Cilicia, defeated by Roman troops under Cicero's command as governor of the Roman province of Cilicia. The city's precise location is not known, but it seems to have been located on the north side of the Amanus mountain range (the modern Nur Dağları in Turkey).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/662159
36.75, 36.333333
- Representative Locations:
- Undetermined location (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Erana (30 BC - AD 300)
- Erana located near Amanus (mountain range) (unspecified date range)
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None
unlocated, settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 Erana
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: N side of Amanus M.
T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, M. Ballance, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Erana: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/662159> [accessed: 16 June 2025]
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