Cilicia: ancient name of what is now southern Turkey. The Persian king Cyrus the Great conquered this country, and after the fall of the Achaemenid empire, Cilicia belonged to the Seleucid and Roman Empires. It was well-known for its iron…
Decimus Clodius Albinus (147-197): Roman emperor (r.193-197).
Clodius Albinus
Decimus Clodius Albinus was born on 25 November 147. According to a very…
Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις) or Byzantium (Βυζάντιον): Greek city on the Bosphorus, capital of the Byzantine Empire, modern İstanbul.
Imperial eagle, on a…
Coracesium, or "the crow's nest", was the ancient name of modern Alanya. In Antiquity, this inaccessible, rocky site was often used as a base by desperadoes.
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Ctesias was a Greek physician who stayed at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II Mnemon from 404 to 398/397. He wrote several books about Persia and India. These books are now lost but were quoted by ancient authors;…
Battle of Cynoscephalae: decisive battle during the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BCE), in which the Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus overcame the Macedonian king Philip V.
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Cyprus (Greek Κύπρος): large island in the eastern Mediterranean, colonized by Phoenicians and Greeks.Prehistoric Cyprus
Reconstructed houses from Choirokoitia
The oldest human…