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Posted at Mar 10/2011 07:39PM:
ian: How did this geographical feature connect or hinder connections between Dar al Islam and Dar al Harb (i.e. Byzantium)?
Posted at Mar 09/2011 06:33PM:
BMB: I'm really bad with this.
Posted at Mar 09/2011 06:32PM:
BMB: Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Cilician Gates: "Narrow pass through the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. From an altitude of 1,050 m/3,445 ft on the central plateau of Anatolia, the ancient road descends westwards to the delta plains surrounding Adana and Tarsus near the Mediterranean coast. It was formerly a major north-south trade route, but has now been by-passed by an expressway." Cilicia: "Ancient region of Asia Minor, now forming part of Turkey, situated between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean. Access from the north across the Taurus range is through the Cilician Gates, a strategic pass that has been used for centuries as part of a trade route linking Europe and the Middle East. History Successively conquered by the Persians, Alexander the Great, and the Romans under Pompey, Cilicia became an independent Armenian principality 1080 and a kingdom 1198. Sometimes referred to as Lesser Armenia, it was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century."
Posted at Mar 09/2011 06:32PM:
BMB: Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Cilician Gates: "Narrow pass through the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. From an altitude of 1,050 m/3,445 ft on the central plateau of Anatolia, the ancient road descends westwards to the delta plains surrounding Adana and Tarsus near the Mediterranean coast. It was formerly a major north-south trade route, but has now been by-passed by an expressway." Cilicia: "Ancient region of Asia Minor, now forming part of Turkey, situated between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean. Access from the north across the Taurus range is through the Cilician Gates, a strategic pass that has been used for centuries as part of a trade route linking Europe and the Middle East. History Successively conquered by the Persians, Alexander the Great, and the Romans under Pompey, Cilicia became an independent Armenian principality 1080 and a kingdom 1198. Sometimes referred to as Lesser Armenia, it was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century."
Posted at Mar 09/2011 06:32PM:
BMB: Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Cilician Gates: "Narrow pass through the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. From an altitude of 1,050 m/3,445 ft on the central plateau of Anatolia, the ancient road descends westwards to the delta plains surrounding Adana and Tarsus near the Mediterranean coast. It was formerly a major north-south trade route, but has now been by-passed by an expressway." Cilicia: "Ancient region of Asia Minor, now forming part of Turkey, situated between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean. Access from the north across the Taurus range is through the Cilician Gates, a strategic pass that has been used for centuries as part of a trade route linking Europe and the Middle East. History Successively conquered by the Persians, Alexander the Great, and the Romans under Pompey, Cilicia became an independent Armenian principality 1080 and a kingdom 1198. Sometimes referred to as Lesser Armenia, it was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century."
can the 2nd reader summarize?