| | ARMENIAN HIGHLAND |
 | | The portal City of Ayas, known as "the Golden port of Armenia" and "the port of many ships" was one of the biggest cities and a bustling center of international trade and commerce of Cilician Armenia. |
| | After the fall of the Cilician Kingdom in 1375, the great city-port of Ayas fell under the rule of first Mamluks and later on Turkomans. |
| | The city also had an extensive vicinity of neighborhoods of artisans and craftsmen who created numerous beautiful artifacts of great elegance and luxury and as well as practical necessities of everyday use that were exported from the port of Ayas to the important commercial centers of the world. |
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