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Cilicia

Cilicia in Asia Minor formed a district which became an Roman province on the southeastern coast of what is now Turkey, north of Cyprus. Salamis, the city on the east coast of Cyprus, was included in its administrative jurisdiction. It was named after Cilix.

Seleucus_VI had court here for a short time.

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