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	Cilicia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cilicia was given an eponymous founder in the mythic Cilix, but the historic founder of the dynasty that ruled Cilicia Pedias was Mopsus, identifiable in Phoenician sources as Mp, the founder of Mospsuestia and protector of an oracle nearby.
		Cilicia as Roman province, 120 AD Trachea became the haunt of pirates, who were subdued by Pompey in 66 BC, and Tarsus was made the capital of the Roman province of Cilicia.
		Cilicia Pedias had become Roman territory in 103 BC, and the whole was organized by Pompey, 64 BC, into a province which, for a short time, extended to and included part of Phrygia.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Cilicia (1372 words)

	Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (sometimes referred to as Armenia Minor) was a state formed in the Middle Ages by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia.
		The Kingdom of Cilicia was founded by the Rubenid dynasty, an offshoot of the larger Bagratid family that at various times held the thrones of Armenia and Georgia.
		Cilicia was a strong ally of the European Crusaders, and saw itself as a bastion of Christendom in the East.
	www.iridis.com /Kingdom_of_Armenia (156 words)

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		Cilicia was given an eponym ous founder in the mythic Cilix, but the historic founder of the dynasty that ruled Cilicia Pedias was Mopsus, identifiable in Phoenician sources as Mpš, the founder of Mospsuestia and protector of an oracle nearby.
		Cilicia as Roman province, 120 AD Cilicia Trachea became the haunt of pirates, who were subdued by Pompey in 67 BC following a battle at Korakesion (modern Alanya), and Tarsus was made the capital of the Roman province of Cilicia.
		The Armenian population of Cilicia was destroyed with the Armenian Genocide.
	www.everybase.com /Cilicia (1069 words)

	Armenian Youth Federation, AYF, Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thus, the territory of the Armenian Plateau is regarded as the cradle of civilization, the initial point for the further spreading of mankind all around the world.
		The Shah Abbas I, the greatest of the Safavid rulers, led the policy of intensive settling of the Muslims on the Armenian lands, while the Armenian population was moved to Iran.
		Artsakh as a part of the Kingdom of Ararat (Urartu) is mentioned in the 8th century BC in cuneiform inscriptions of the King Sardur.
	www.ayfwest.org /Armenia/armenia_armenian.html (15279 words)

	Cilicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cilicia Trachea became the haunt of pirates, who were subdued by Pompey in 66 BC and Tarsus was made the capital of the Roman province of Cilicia.
		Levond II (Leo the Great (1185-1219), extended the kingdom beyond Mount Taurus and established the capital at Sis.
		Haithon I (1224-1269) made an alliance with the Mongols, who, before their adoption of Islam, protected his kingdom from the Mamelukes of Egypt.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Cilicia (1003 words)

	ARMENIAN KINGDOM IN CILICIA (FROM 1080 TO 1375) - History of Armenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Armenian Nakharars became Knights and Barons, Sparapets were often called Constables etc. The Armenian Cilician noblemen used the Latin and French languages alongside the Armenian.
		During the ruling of Leon II, when Cilicia enjoyed the period of a prosperous development, the Third Crusade was proclaimed in Europe.
		The Cilician Armenian Kingdom was reinforced after Leon II gained the long-term conflict over the Latin princes of the neighboring Antioch Principality.
	www.hayastan.com /armenia/history/armenia/index06.php (1022 words)

	Cilicia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Seljuk invasion of Armenia was followed by an exodus of Armenians southwards, and in 1080, Ruben I of ArmeniaRhupen, a relative of the last king of Ani, founded in the heart of the Cilician Taurus a small principality, which gradually expanded into the kingdom of Lesser Armenia or Armenia Minor.
		Cilicia Trachea was conquered by the Ottoman EmpireOttomans/ in the 15th century, but Cilicia Pedias remained independent until 1515.
		According to the Treaty of Sèvres of 1920, Cilicia was to be a part of French Syria but was given to the TurkeyRepublic of Turkey in 1921.
	www.infothis.com /find/Cilicia (1030 words)

	Armenian History, chapter 6: Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia
		Although Frederic I was tragically drowned in the Calycadnus River in Cilicia, Leon II continued to support the Crusaders.
		Some religious concessions and the further reunion of the Armenian and Catholic churches were stipulated as an important condition.
		The King Leon IV repeatedly sent messengers to Rome promising the reunion of the Armenian and Catholic churches.
	www.armenianhistory.info /cilician.htm (1024 words)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND
		In 1347, King Constantine II led the Armenian Knights and the allied Knights Hospitallers in the liberation of Cilician Armenia from the Mamluks of Egypt [who ironically were overwhelmingly made up of and often led by Armenians who were captured from Armenia and were raised as Muslim warriors].
		King Levon, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia, “disappointed in his labors and expectations” passed away in Paris, on November 29, 1393.
		His remains were interred in the sacred basilica of St. Denis, the resting place of many of the European royals, on the outskirts of the French capital.
	www.armenianhighland.com /kings/chronicle593.html (693 words)

	UCLA \| Armenian Studies \| Resources
		Until the sixth century, Armenians are present in Constantinople as a small and negligible minority, symbolized by Narses the cubicularios and famous general of Justinian I. From the seventh century on, they start to represent a significant military force and form a political network.
		The Armenian Patirarchate's position and relationship to the Ottoman authorities was inspired by, and was remotely akin to, that of the Greek Patriarchate.
		The activities of Latinizing missions and Armenian Catholics constituted a grave threat to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate, to the dogma of the Church of Armenia, and to Armenian identity.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/centers/armenian/source111.html (10369 words)

	Armenian Architecture - VirtualANI - Travellers' Accounts of Ani: H. F. B. Lynch in 1893
		Some stout spirits established themselves in the mountains of Cilicia, where they founded a petty kingdom which endured for nearly three hundred years (A.D. The obstinacy of their race was made manifest by the long resistance of this colony to the spiritual guidance of the popes of Rome.
		Some among them were permitted to retain their own laws; and the jurisprudence of the Armenian kings figures in the code of the colony of Lemberg, which was administered by the Armenian notables with the express sanction of the Polish kings and which has been preserved to the curiosity of our own age.
		Although the interior is almost free of ornament, the art of the sculptor has been employed upon the enrichment of the outside niches, of the doorways and windows, and of the mouldings of the false arcade.
	www.virtualani.freeserve.co.uk /accounts/lynch.htm (6469 words)

	Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
		Kingdoms listed under the Seleucids are those that broke away from the Asiatic part of Alexander's Empire that largely had been inherited by Seleucus, though a couple of them, like Armenia, were actually only under Seleucid control briefly.
		The absorption of the kingdom by the Ostrogoths, who dominated the Ukraine at the time in the fourth century, is a portent for the trouble that the Empire proper was going to have with the Goths in the fifth century.
		Seleucus left India to the growing power of the Mauryas, but was about to add Thrace to his kingdom when, stepping out of the boat in Europe, he was assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus, whom he had taken in as a refugee.
	www.friesian.com /hist-1.htm (12090 words)

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