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Mocisus or Mocisum (Mokesos, Mokison) a fort in the north western part of Cappadocia, which the Emperor Justinian, at the time when he divided the country into three provinces, raised to the rank of the capital of Cappadocia III. On that occasion the place was considerably enlarged, and its name was changed into Justinianopolis. (Procop. de Aed. v. 4; Hierocl. p. 701, where it is miswritten Pegekoukousos, for Pegemoukisos; Const. Porph. de Them. i. 2; Steph. B. s. v. Moukissos; Conc. Const. ii. p. 96.) It modern name is Kir Shehr.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A district in the northwest of Cappadocia, comprising both banks of the river
Halys, is said to have been fit only for pasture land, to have had scarcely any
fruit-trees, and to have abounded in wild asses. (Strab. xii. pp. 534, 537, 539,
540; Plin. H. N. vi. 3.) The Romans regarded it as a part of Galatia, whence Ptolemy
(v. 6) does not mention it among the districts of Cappadocia.
Pyramus (Puramos,), one of the great rivers of Asia Minor, which has its sources in Cataonia near the town of Arabissus. (Strab. i. p. 53, xiv. p. 675.) For a time it passes under ground, but then comes forward again as a navigable river, and forces its way through a glen of Mount Taurus, which in some parts is so narrow that a god can leap across it. (Strab. xii. p. 536.) Its course, which until then had been south, now turns to the south-west, and reaches the sea st Mallus in Cilicia. This river is deep and rapid (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 440); its average breadth was 1 stadium (Xenoph. Anab. i. 4. § 1), but it carried with it such a quantity of mud, that, according to an ancient oracle, its deposits were one day to reach the island of Cyprus, and thus unite it with the mainland. (Strab. l. c.; Eustath. ad Dionys, 867.) Stephanus B. (s. v.) states that formerly this river had been called Leucosyrus. (Comp. Scylax, p. 40; Ptol. v. 8. § 4; Plin. v. 22; Pomp. Mela, i. 13; Curtius, iii. 7; Arrian, Anab. ii. 5. § 8.) Its modern name is Seihun or Jechun.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Sargarausene, a district of Cappadocia, on the east of Commagene and near the
frontiers of Pontus, containing, according to Ptolemy (v. 6. § 13), the towns
of Phiara, Sadagena, Gauraena, Sabalassus, Ariarathira, and Maroga. (Strab. xii.
pp. 534, 537; Plin. vi. 3.)
Soanda or Soandum (Soanda or Soandon), a castle of Cappadocia, between Therma
and Sacoena. (Strab. xiv. p. 663; It. Ant. p. 202.) The same place seems to be
alluded to by Frontinus (iii. 2. § 9), who calls it Suenda. Hamilton (Researches,
ii. p. 286, foil.) identifies it with Ssoghanli Dere, a place situated on a rock,
about 8 miles on the south-west of Karahissar, but other geopraphers place it
in a different locality.
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