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ΖΕΦΥΡΙΟΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
About 48 km W of Adana towards the end of the alluvial plain where
the mountains of the Taurus range begin closely to approach the Mediterranean.
The city's history is elusive, though archaeology suggests a very ancient settlement
including, in its pre-Islamic phase, an unbroken pottery sequence from Mycenaean
to archaic Greek times. Literary evidence is scanty, though Zephyrion seems to
have changed hands frequently in the Hellenistic period, from Seleucid to Ptolemaic,
and then back to Seleucid control. A short period of semi-autonomy ended with
Pompey's Cilician settlement, and like Mopsuestia and Alexandria ad Issum the
city chose 67 B.C. as the opening of a new era. It was apparently a relatively
small and unimportant city, but was nevertheless a bishopric under the Metropolitan
of Tarsus in the Christian period. Its modern successor is capital of the Mersin
vilayet, and except at Soguksu Tepe, N of the town, no excavation has been undertaken.
Some ancient building material found in reuse was probably taken from the ruins
of Soli-Pompeiopolis some 11 km to the W. Until recently these were housed in
Mersin, but are now in the Museum of Adana.
M. Gough, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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