Index Selinus-Traianopolis Cilicia

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Selinus-Traianopolis / Σελινούς-Τραϊανόπολις

Ex H.Kiepert, Atlas antiquus, Berlin, Reimer, ca. 1875 AD

The region is a part of the world with a long history, and there is evidence of Hittite settlement going back to 2000 BC, and it is assumed that this coast was settled long before that. The Ancient Greek city of Selinus was established here on the River Kestros/Selinus (today called Hacımusa/Musa Çay) by 628 BC, as part of the kingdom of Cilicia. In 197 BC the area passed into the hands of the Ancient Romans, and in the 1st century AD the Emperor Trajan died here after falling ill while journeying along the Mediterranean coast. His body was taken by his successor Hadrian for burial in Rome and for a period the town was named Traianapolis.

The Romans were succeeded by the Byzantines. Byzantines were succeeded by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia who lost the area to the Seljuk Turks of `Ala' ad-Din Kay-Qubad in 1225. Selinus was retaken briefly by Armenians before the conquest of Karamanids in the end of the 13th century. During the area of the Anatolian beyliks the coast including Selinti was controlled by the Karamanid clan of Konya and was brought into the Ottoman Empire in 1472 by Gedik Ahmet Pasha, naval commander of Sultan Mehmet II. The 17th century traveller Evliya Çelebi records Selinti as a group of 26 villages, with a well-kept mosque on the seafront along with a jetty for boats to Cyprus, and green mountains behind.

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Selinus-Traianopolis Cilicia - Centering Statististics
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Traianus 98-117 AD	2
Hadrianus 117-138 AD	2
Faustina jr. 161-176 AD	1
Marcus Aurelius 161-180 AD	1
Lucilla 164-182 AD	3
Septimius Severus 193-211 AD	2
Iulia Domna 193-211 AD	3
Geta 198-212 AD	4
Caracalla 198-217 AD	1
Severus Alexander 222-235 AD	5
Maximus 236-238 AD	2
Philippus I 244-249	1
Philippus II 247-249	2
Traianus Decius 249.251 AD	3
Herenia Etruscila 249-251 AD	3
Herenius Etruscus 249-251 AD	1

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