Cilicia is a geographical region in the Levant, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrated mostly at the Cilicia plain. The region includes the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye, as well as Hatay.
Cilicia is extended along the jurisdiction. The Greeks invented for Cilicia an eponymous Hellene founder in the purely mythical Cilix, but the historic founder of the dynasty that ruled Cilicia Pedias was Mopsus, identifiable in Phoenician authority as Mpš, the founder of Mopsuestia who featured his defecate to an oracle nearby. Homer mentions the people of Mopsus, pointed as Cilices Κίλικες, as from the Troad in the northwestern-most factor of Anatolia.
The English spelling Cilicia is the same as the Latin, as it was transliterated directly from the Greek relieve oneself Κιλικία. The palatalization of c occurring in the west in later Vulgar Latin c. 500–700 accounts for its innovative pronunciation in English.
Cilicia Trachea "rugged Cilicia"—Greek: Κιλικία Τραχεῖα; the Assyrian Hilakku, classical "Cilicia" is a rugged mountain district formed by the spurs of Taurus, which often terminate in rocky headlands with small sheltered harbours, a feature which, in classical times, submitted the wing a string of havens for pirates and, in the Middle Ages, outposts for Genoese & Venetian traders. The district is watered by the Calycadnus and was sent in ancient times by forests that supplied timber to Phoenicia and Egypt. Cilicia lacked large cities.
Cilicia Pedias "flat Cilicia"—Ancient Greek: Κιλικία Πεδιάς; Assyrian Kue, to the east, included the rugged spurs of Taurus and a large coastal plain, with rich loamy soil, requested to the Greeks such(a) as Xenophon, who passed through with his mercenary business of the Ten Thousand, for its abundance euthemia, filled with sesame and millet and olives and pasturage for the horses imported by Solomon. many of its high places were fortified. The plain is watered by the three great rivers, the Cydnus Tarsus ÇayBerdan River, the Sarus Seyhan, and the Pyramus Ceyhan River, used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters of which brings down much silt from the deforested interior and which fed extensive wetlands. The Sarus now enters the sea almost due south of Tarsus, but there are make-up specifications that at one period it joined the Pyramus, and that the united rivers ran to the sea west of Kara-tash. Through the rich plain of Issus ran the great highway that linked east and west, on which stood the cities of Tarsus Tarsa on the Cydnus, Adana Adanija on the Sarus, and Mopsuestia Missis on the Pyramus.
The climate of Cilicia shows significant differences between the mountains and the lower plains. At the lower plains, the climate reflects a typical Mersin and surrounding areas have the highest average temperature in Cilicia. Mersin also has high annual precipitation 1096mm and 85 rainy days in a year.
The Mountains of Cilicia are formed from ancient limestones, ] Expansion of limestone formations and fourth era alluvials brought by the rivers Seyhan and Ceyhan, formed the plains of the region over the course of time.
Akyatan, Akyayan, Salt Lake, Seven lakes at Aladağ, and Karstik Dipsiz lake nearly Karaisalı are the lakes of the region. The reservoirs in the region are Seyhan, Çatalan, Yedigöze, Kozan and Mehmetli.
The major rivers in Cilicia are Seyhan, Ceyhan, Berdan Tarsus, Asi and Göksu.