Cilicia

• “Syria" in the order of words before "Cilicia," is due to Antioch being”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “He therefore went to Tarshish, to Tarsus in Cilicia (so some), probably because he had friends and relations there, with whom he hoped for some time to sojourn.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “Mopsuestia and Tarsus, in Cilicia, first exercised the skill and perseverance of their troops, on whom, at this moment, I shall not hesitate to bestow the name of Romans.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Theodore, a monk of Tarsus in Cilicia, had been named to the primacy of Britain by Pope Vitalian, (A.D. 688; see Baronius and Pagi,) whose esteem for his learning and piety was tainted by some distrust of his national character — ne quid contrarium veritati fidei, Graecorum more, in ecclesiam cui praeesset introduceret.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “39 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.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “Note that this may even include the area known as Cilicia, a separate but ethnically connected entity bordering the Mediterranean Sea that dates back to the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia in the early part of the second Millenium.”

  The Huffington Post: Robbie Gennet: Why the Armenian Genocide Matters

• “George, 119 from his parents or his education, surnamed the Cappadocian, was born at Epiphania in Cilicia, in a fuller’s shop.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Bertinian. apud Pagi, tom.iii. p. 720.)] 94 Abulpharagius (Dynast.p. 167, 168) relates one of these singular transactions on the bridge of the River Lamus in Cilicia, the limit of the two empires, and one day’s journey westward of Tarsus, (D’Anville,”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “She came from the Trojan area known as Cilicia in Thebes, and her father was the local king, Eetion, admired by most, respected by all.”

  Ilium

• “Within a century, the heirs of Roupen were further rewarded by the grant of a kingdom known as Cilicia or Lesser Armenia, to be held as a vassal government of the Holy See and of Germany.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

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