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PYLAE CILICIAE (Gülek Boğazi, İçel) Turkey.

One of the most famous mountain passes, this cleft to the S of Mt. Tauros has been used by armies from antiquity (Cyrus the Younger, Alexander) almost to the present day. It also carried a great weight of commercial traffic though this could be interrupted in winter (Cic. Ep. ad Att. 5.21.14). The Via Tauri was improved and the pass widened under Caracalla. A tablet recording his work survives at the Cilician Gates today.

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R. P. Harper, “Podandus and the Via Tauri,” AnatSt 20 (1970) 149-53.

R. P. HARPER

The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.

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