| |
| |
CAPPADOCIA - LoveToKnow Article on CAPPADOCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | With the exception of a narrow strip of the district called Melitene, on the east, which forms part of the valley of the Euphrates, the whole of this region is a high upland tract, attaining to more than 3000 ft., and constituting the most elevated portion of the great tableland of Asia Minor (q.v.). |
 | | The western parts of the province, where it adjoins Lycaonia, extending thence to the foot of Mount Taurus, are open treeless plains, affording pasture in modern as in ancient times to numerous flocks of sheep, but almost wholly desolate. |
 | | Tyanilis, the region of which Tyana was the capital, was a level tract in the extreme south, extending to the foot of Mount Taurus. |
| www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAPPADOCIA.htm (2806 words) |
|