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  • proper noun historical An ancient city of Asia Minor, the capital of Cappadocia, on the site of modern Kayseri, Turkey.

Etymologies

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From Latin Mazaca, from the name of the tribe of Mushki.

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Examples

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

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • 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 Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

  • 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 Flavius Josephus 1709

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

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 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.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • 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.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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

    e. Persian Asia Minor 2001

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