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| | CILICIA (Jewish Encyclopedia) - BibleWiki |
 | | Christianity spread rapidly in Cilicia; and this indicates that there were numerous Jews in the province. | | | In Corycos in Cilicia the sarcophagus of a Jew named Alexander and his wife has been found. | | | That Jews were dwelling in Cilicia is known from Philo ("Legatio ad Caium," p. |
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http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/CILICIA_(Jewish_Encyclopedia)
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| | Acts 21:39 But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia |
| | But Paul said, I am a man who am a Jew of Tarsus, a city of Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee suffer me to speak to the people. | | | But Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee, give me leave to speak unto the people. | | | But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. |
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http://bible.cc/acts/21-39.htm
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| | Cilicia |
| | After the death of Alexander in Babylon (11 June 323), Cilicia was first part of the kingdom of Antigonus Monophthalmus, who had been appointed as satrap of Phrygia. | | | To the south, the Mediterranean sea is Cilicia's neighbor, and the region knew (and knows) close contacts with Cyprus. | | | This marked the end of the independence of Cilicia. |
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http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/cilicia/cilicia.html
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| | Acts 22:3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia |
| | Acts 22:3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia | | | "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. | | | I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day. |
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http://bible.cc/acts/22-3.htm
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| | Armenian Web Sites |
| | Cilicia web site by Cilicia web site by By Raffi Kojian. |
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http://www.toomajian.com/armenian_web_sites.htm
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| | Blue Letter Bible - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge |
| | But Paul said, I am a man [which am] a Jew of Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. | | | Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. | | | I am verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. |
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http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Gal/1/21.html
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| | Cilicia |
| | The Jews of Cilicia had a synagogue at Jerusalem (Act_6:9). | | | The early settlers of Cilicia are held to have been Semitic Syrians and Phoenicians, but in the still earlier days the inhabitants must have been Hittites. | | | On his voyage to Rome he sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia (Act_27:5). |
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http://holycall.com/biblemaps/cilicia.htm
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| | Cilicia, Soloi - Ancient Greek Coins - WildWinds.com |
| | Soli, Cilicia, AE26, (10.47g) Radiate head of Helios right. | | | Radiate & cuirassed bust right / Bearded male, in short chiton, right hand raised; lighted altar at left. | | | Cilicia, Soloi - Ancient Greek Coins - WildWinds.com |
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http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/cilicia/soloi
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| | TARSUS - LoveToKnow Article on TARSUS |
| | But Harun al-Rashid rebuilt its walls in 787, and made it the north-western capital of the Arab power in the long wars against the Byzantine empire. | | | Tersous), an ancient city in the fertile plain of Cilicia. | | | The Arabs captured the whole of Cilicia shortly after A.D. 660; and Tarsus seems to have been a ruin for more than a century after the conquest. |
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http://34.1911encyclopedia.org/T/TA/TARSUS.htm
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| | Armenian History, chapter 6: Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia |
| | Later Leon I and his elder son Ruben were murdered in prison, but Leon's younger son Thoros known as Thoros II was spared. | | | As a matter of fact, the Christian Cilicia was doomed. | | | Unable to subject Thoros, the Greeks even concluded a military alliance with Sultan of Konya, but the troops of the latter were also routed by Thoros. |
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http://www.armenianhistory.info/cilician.htm
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| | HyeEtch - The Armenians - History - Kingdom of Cilicia |
| | Strictly speaking, it had nothing to do with the principle of free conquest that governed invasions. | | | With the end of the kingdom of Cilicia, the national political unity of the Armenian people began to break up, and foreign domination ensued. | | | There were many of these colonies and they were consistent, a consequence of the mass migrations that took place after the kingdoms of the motherland had collapsed. |
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http://www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au/armenians/cilicia_p1.html
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| | HyeEtch - Religion & Church - Holy See of Cilicia p2 |
| | - Having its headquarters in the Arab world, the Catholicosate of Cilicia has brought its full participation in the major events of this part of the world. | | | Cilicia became a battleground for hostile Seljuks, Mamluks and other invaders. | | | The Catholicosate of Cilicia continues with growing impetus and interest its ecumenical relations with the Anglican Church and the other Churches of the Protestant tradition as well as with various ecumenical organizations. |
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http://www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au/religion/h_see_p5.html
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| | The Armenians |
| | Guy was assassinated in his turn, and in the following reign the last Cilician seaport was lost to the Egyptian Mamluks. | | | Cilicia maintained its territorial integrity against Seljuks, Mamluks and Mongols while the crusader states were being steadily eroded. | | | Levon based his court on Frankish Crusader models, and adopted western-style feudalism. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/empire/egfroth/Armenians.html
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| | Cilicia |
| | A brief period of Arab rule came in the 8th century, but Byzantine power was re-established 200 years later. | | | Upon Alexander's death 10 years later in 323 BC, the Macedonian conquests disintegrated into factional kingdoms under the rule of his generals, and Cilicia was no different. | | | Despite Roman victories over the Seleucid King Antiochus III, Cilicia remained a part of his kingdom for at least another century. |
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http://www.unrv.com/provinces/cilicia.php
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| | Dangerous Archaeology |
| | Thus far, the story of Kelsey's Near Eastern Expedition has been told in broad terms outlining Kelsey's main scholarly and other interests: Kelsey the scientist surveying and collecting evidence of the distant past, Kelsey the statesman arguing modern politics, and Kelsey the co-religionist documenting the relief efforts of Protestant missionaries. | | | Kelsey's archaeological interests in Cilicia paralleled his interests in other regions he surveyed during this expedition. | | | Kelsey's journey through Cilicia occurred immediately before the region was abandoned by the Western allies who had assumed responsibility for it and its Christian, mostly Armenian communities. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/DangerousArchaeology/Armenia.html
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| | Cilicia Middle Age Sailing Ship Will Be Put Out To Sea From Georgian Port Poti In Middle Of July |
| | Cilicia Middle Age Sailing Ship Will Be Put Out To Sea From Georgian Port Poti In Middle Of July | | | He said that the project is an historical experiment as such: recreating the sailing ship of the 13th century of the Cilicia trade fleet, the crew of the ship tries to sail on the route of trade the ships that were put out to the Mediterranean sea from Ayas port. | | | "We have some difficulties with tobacco, as there was no tobacco in Cilicia, but several members of the crew could not refuse from smoking," Danielyan said. |
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http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/js04/040616ayas.html
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| | Tarsus |
| | Acts 21:39… Paul [Saul] said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city… | | | Known to the ancient Egyptians as "the place where one turns around", this little plain was the Kue of the Old Testament and eastern Cilicia in the New Testament period. | | | In a particular year which is completely unknown but which we might venture to guess to have been 10 AD, Saul of Tarsus was born. |
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http://www.ancientroute.com/cities/Tarsus.htm
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| | THE ROUGH CILICIA REGIONAL SURVEY PROJECT: Report of the 1997 Season |
| | We will have to await further results before attempting a definitive statement. | | | Owing to their tireless efforts the team processed some 3500 sherds, now organized into a data base at Richard Rothaus archaeological laboratory at St. Cloud State University. | | | This information forms an interesting picture of an otherwise little known region of the eastern Mediterranean world. |
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http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~rauhn/reports/AHR97/report97.htm
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| | IV/2 Cilician Armenian (1071-1375 AD) |
| | His son, T'oros, was able to escape from prison and organize an Armenian resistance, which fought Byzantine incursions lead by Manual I Comnenus until 1180 AD. | | | In 1187 AD, Prince Levon (Leo) II became ruler, and by 1199 AD had been recognized as King of Cilicia by Byzantium, the Ayyubids, and the German Imperialists. | | | After the fall of Palestine, many of the Orders retired to strongholds in Cilicia. |
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http://www.fanaticus.org/dba/armies/IV2.html
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| | pirates.html |
| | This was the most dramatic episode of its history and he would have known it well. | | | Paul used a war from the recent history of his native Cilicia to illustrate our spiritual warfare. | | | They are mighty in His sight Trust in them - use them. |
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http://www.dwalker83.freeserve.co.uk/pirates.html
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| | Asbarez Online - OCTOBER 27, 2000 |
| | Hovannisian invited UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale to make welcoming remarks. | | | This conference was presided over by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia. | | | Richard Hovannisian and the UCLA Modern Chair for Armenian Studies was held from Oct. 19 and 20 at the university. |
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http://www.asbarez.com/aol/2000/001027.htm
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| | Berenice of Cilicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On his early death, she was married to her father's brother, Herod of Chalcis, after whose death in 48 she lived for some years with her brother, Agrippa II. | | | During the devastation of Judaea by the Romans after the Great Jewish Revolt, she fascinated Titus Flavius, whom along with Agrippa she followed to Rome as his promised wife in 75. | | | Her third husband was Polemon, king of Cilicia, but she soon deserted him, and returned to Agrippa, with whom she was living in 60 CE when Paul of Tarsus appeared before him at Caesarea (Acts xxv, 13). |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_of_Cilicia
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| | Cilicia and Pamphylia - All About Turkey |
| | The ancient kingdom of Cilicia in Asia Minor was the area known to the Assyrians as Khilakku in the west and Kue in the east. | | | This local attachment to Mithraism made it particularly difficult for the early Christians to gain general acceptance of their new religion. | | | Cilicia was never a kingdom in its own right for very long. |
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http://www.allaboutturkey.com/kilikya.htm
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| | Pope John Paul II - Letter to Catholicos of Cilicia - 20 May 2001 |
| | Many saintly shepherds and spiritual leaders of Cilicia worked assiduously for reconciliation and full communion among Christians. | | | The Catholicosate of Cilicia represents in a particular way the age-old pilgrimage of Armenian Christianity. | | | I have recently sent a similar relic to His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of Etchmiadzine, as well as to His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pope0264ry.htm
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| | Ancient coinage of Cilicia |
| | The capital of the later kings of Cilicia was at Hieropolis-Castabala. | | | Mallus, one of the oldest cities in Cilicia, on the lower course of the Cydnus, was according to one tradition founded by Mopsos and Amphi- lochos, the latter of whom had a famous oracle on the spot. | | | Tarsus, on the Cydnus, the most important city in Cilicia, was in the time of Xenophon the capital of its kings, by whom the coins earlier than the time of Tiribazus must have been struck. |
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http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/cilicia.html
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| | The secret of his success was, of course, that the Cilician pirates had already been defeated by Publius Servilius Vatia. | | | After the outbreak of this war and the defeat of Marcus Antonius at Crete, the pirates had a brief respite. | | | Their actions along the Italian shores were caused by the fact that they could no longer safely use Cilicia as their base. |
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http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/cilicia/cilician_pirates.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Cilicia |
| | Cilicia, ancient region of Asia Minor, extending along the north and northeast shores of the Gulf of İskenderun (Gulf of Alexandretta), from the Taurus... |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555464/Cilicia.html
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| | XVIII. To M. Porcius Cato (At Rome). Cilicia (January). Cicero. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard Classics. |
| | Arrived there, I learnt that the enemy had retired from Antioch, and that Bibulus was at Antioch. | | | While this was going on, and when, after reviewing the army, I had on the 28th of August begun my march to Cilicia, some legates sent to me by the sovereign of Commagene announced, with every sign of panic, yet not without some foundation, that the Parthians had entered Syria. | | | Metras and Athenæus (the latter strongly commended to me by yourself), who had been exiled owing to the persistent enmity of Queen Athenais, I restored to a position of the highest influence and favour with the king. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/9/3/18.html
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| | The Crusades |
| | Together with the Crusaders and Mongols who at first were open to Christianity, the Armenians were able to defeat the Seljuks in several battles. | | | The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia under Hetum I had managed to make some alliances with the Mongols during this period. | | | Only the Catholicate of Cilicia, which at the time was led by the Catholicos of all Armenians (the Seat of the Armenian Apostolic church had transferred to Hromkla, Cilicia in 1147), was able to maintain some semblance of Armenian government. |
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http://www.armenianheritage.com/hicrusad.htm
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| | SIMPLICIUS (OF CILICIA) - LoveToKnow Article on SIMPLICIUS (OF CILICIA) |
| | Before two years had elapsed they returned to. | | | SIMPLICIUS (OF CILICIA) - LoveToKnow Article on SIMPLICIUS (OF CILICIA) | | | This treatise abounded with errors of the press, and contained several obscurities and defects incidental to the authors want of experience and the disadvantages under which |
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http://73.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SI/SIMPLICIUS_OF_CILICIA_.htm
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| | Cilicia |
| | It is while running after his sister Europa, abducted by Zeus to become the mother of the Cretan king Minos, that Cilix eventually settled in the country to which he gave his name. | | | Cilicia owed its name to the mythological hero Cilix, a son of the Phoenician king Agenor, and brother of Cadmus, Thasus, Phoenix and Europa. | | | Region of south eastern Asia Minor south of Cappadocia along the Mediterranean coast north of Cyprus (area 5). |
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http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/loc/cilicia.htm
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| | Bible Tools & Resources - ChristianWebSite.com |
| | It was formed into a Roman province, B.C. The Jews of Cilicia had a synagogue at Jerusalem (Acts 6:9). | | | 1:21; Acts 9:30), and again, on his second missionary journey (15:41), "he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches." It was famous for its goat's-hair cloth, called cilicium. | | | Cilicia - a maritime province in the south-east of Asia Minor. |
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http://www.botcw.com/bible/kjv/easton/east0831.htm
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| | Berenice of Cilicia |
| | She was married three times -- to Mark of Alexandria, then to her father's brother Herod of Chalcis, and then to King Polemo of Cilicia -- and was the long-time mistress of the Roman emperor Titus Flavius. |
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http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/be/Berenice_of_Cilicia.html
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| | Search Results for Cilicia - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Caria, Lycia, and Cilicia in the Achaemenian period | | | former city of the ancient province of Cilicia in Anatolia that was important in the Roman and Byzantine periods. | | | In the 5th century Caria was ruled by tyrants and princes, whose loyalties were divided between the Greek and Persian sides at the time of the Ionian insurrection. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=Cilicia&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | Armenian Cilicia |
| | Cilicia: The View from the Women's Organizations of Constantinople | | | The Historical Incentives of Political Revival in Cilicia | | | Honorary Presidency of His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/calendar/0001/fulltext/fulltext1691293029.html
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| | ptarsusd |
| | Tarsus was the capital of Cilicia, and the birthplace of the apostle Paul. | | | On the east was the Cilicia Pedias (or ``Flat Cilicia") that extended (North to South) from the edge of the Taursus Mountains to the sea. | | | The area of Cilicia during the New Testament times can be broken down into two distinct parts. |
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http://www.mustardseed.net/html/ptarsusd.html
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| | THE ROUGH CILICIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROJECT: PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE 2003 SEASON |
| | The Rough Cilicia Survey Team was fortunate to meet with police authorities in Karatepe who were extremely knowledgeable about the state and location of ancient remains in the vicinity and willing to direct the team to their approximate locations. | | | The Rough Cilicia Archaeological Project conducted archaeological and geoarchaeological research in the Gazipasha district (Antalya Province, south coastal Turkey) from July 21 through August 21 2003. | | | Interactive GIS maps for each of the ten sites examined during the 2003 season, hotlinked to datasets of processed ceramic and featural remains, to animated previews, and to some 600+ digital photos, are now posted on-line at the project website: http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~rauhn. |
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http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/%7Erauhn/rc2003/report/Rc03_report.htm
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| | Blogrel: Cilicia to set sail |
| | It wasn't a place that I would like to spend several months, but by the look of their stash of vodka they were well-prepared. | | | I was lucky to clamber aboard the Cilicia on a cold and windy October day last year on Lake Sevan. | | | I was lucky to clamber aboard the Cilicia on a cold and windy October day last year... |
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http://www.blogrel.com/archives/000246.html
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| | The Pirates of Cilicia |
| | Eventually the number of pirates in Cilicia was so great that local cities found themselves forming alliances with them (207). | | | More precisely where the "mountains come down to the sea" (190). | | | They took over the policing of the seas and greatly reduced the prevalence of piracy in Cilicia. |
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http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/ce.jfranks/piratesofcilicia.htm
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| | Tarsus, St.Paul's Well, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org |
| | It is an ancient city, on the alluvial plain of ancient Cilicia, the birthplace of St. Paul (Acts of the Apostles 22:3). | | | Excavations by Hetty Goldman before and immediately after World War II at Gözlükule, on the southwestern periphery of the modern town, show that, with some interruptions, settlements had existed there from Neolithic to Islamic times. | | | Thereafter, Achaemenid and Seleucid rule alternated with periods of autonomy. |
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http://www.adiyamanli.org/tarsus.html
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| | Armenian history, Mongol history, Georgian history, Turkish History, Cilicia |
| | May his memory be blessed and may his prayers be upon the entire land and all Christians. | | | Meanwhile the slanderer Satan, because of his wicked envy, was ever teaching mankind to work inequities, such as Cain's fratricide and the impious giants, to create new sins, and to eat carrion. | | | Armenian history, Mongol history, Georgian history, Turkish History, Cilicia |
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http://rbedrosian.com/ga1.htm
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| | Address to the Patriarch of Cilicia |
| | With heartfelt affection I welcome you to this nurturing city, sanctified by the blood of the Apostles Peter and Paul, the See of that Bishop who is himself built upon the rock which is the Church's foundation and whose mandate is to confirm his brethren in the faith. | | | A few days after your election as Patriarch of Cilicia for Armenian Catholics, after receiving ecclesiastical communion from me, you have come here as a joyful sign and expression of your communion and that of your Church with the Successor of Peter. | | | This event celebrates the goodness of the Lord who has so loved us that he has granted us to share fully in the same faith. |
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http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_13121999_cilicia-patriarch_en.html
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| | RA President Congratulates Crew Of "Cilicia" Sailer - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site |
| | The message, text of which was submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA President's Press Office, reads: | | | Since 2004, you have passed through many seas and come to the Atlantic Ocean on a dublicate of the 13th century sailer of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. | | | I congratulate you on the occasion of the end of the regular stage of the "Cilicia" sailer's voyage of many years. |
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http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/ADC/news.asp?id=56
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| | Greek Mythology: PHERES LAMIOI Satyrs or Centaurs of Dionysos from Cilicia, Anatolia |
| | Greek Mythology: PHERES LAMIOI Satyrs or Centaurs of Dionysos from Cilicia, Anatolia | | | THE PHERES LAMIOI were twelve rustic DAIMONES (Spirits) of the River Lamos in Kilikia (Anatolia) appointed by Zeus to guard the infant Dionysos from the machinations of his step-mother Hera. | | | Next he struck the hairy front of another Kentauros with a two-bladed axe, and shore away the curving horn form his bull’s-head. |
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http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/PheresLamioi.html
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| | Diogenes Laertius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The IEP is actively seeking an author who will write a replacement article. | | | Diogenes Laertius, native of Laerte in Cilicia, was a biographer of ancient Greek philosophers. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dioglaer.htm
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| | Clark University |
| | Ancient documents named cities around the Bay of Pamphylia as being associated with pirates from the region of Cilicia (east of the bay) who raided the shipping lanes of the Mediterranean. | | | Professor Rhys Townsend and undergraduate Ed Connor '01 are on the outlaw trail. | | | More specifically, as participants in the ongoing Rough Cilicia Regional Archaeological Survey Project begun in 1996, they're looking for evidence of Cilician pirates active in the 2nd century B.C. in the area of Pamphylia on the southern Turkish coast. |
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http://www2.clarku.edu/research/access/vpa/townsend/townsendD.shtml
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