Mazaca

• “Semitic name Mazaca; it is even now the most important commercial town in eastern Asia Minor.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “Constantius still staying at Cæsarea in Cappadocia, a town formerly known as Mazaca, admirably situated at the foot of Mount Argæus, and of high reputation.”

  The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens

• “There is also a mark of their ancient denomination still to be shown; for there is even now among them a city called Mazaca, which may inform those that are able to understand, that so was the entire nation once called.”

  Antiquities of the Jews

• “Cæsareia the capital of Cappadocia (Pliny, vi. 3), the royal residence before called Mazaca (Strabo).”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “A realization that put him severely out of sorts and sent him with Poplicola, the brothers Decidius Saxa, and Dellius to inspect the priest-kingdom of Ma at Comana, not far distant from Eusebeia Mazaca.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “Eusebeia Mazaca sat at the foot of the vast volcano Argaeus, white with snow, for no one in history remembered its erupting.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “The satrapy of Cilicia was ruled from Adana, and that of Cappadocia from Mazaca.”

  e. Persian Asia Minor

• “Several couriered letters to Mazaca failed to provide an answer; indeed, none of the couriers came back.”

  The Grass Crown

• “So from Mazaca, Sulla led his neat little army due east across the rolling highlands of Cappadocia, heading for the Euphrates River at the Melitene crossing to Tomisa.”

  The Grass Crown

• “It had taken almost two months for the caravan to reach the Halys near Mazaca, and it had arrived at almost the same moment as Gaius Marius; when Marius had found the King absent, the King was visiting his traveling court beside the Halys to make sure all had been done as he wanted it.”

  The Grass Crown

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