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EGEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Aegae in Asia (Aigai, Aigaial, Ainxai: Eth. Aigaios, Ainxhates; Ayas
Kala, or Kalassy), a town on the coast of Cilicia, on the north side of the bay
of Issus. It is now separated from the outlet of the Pyramus (Jyhoon) by a long
narrow aestuary called Ayas Bay. In Strabo's time it was a small city with a port.
(Comp. Lucan, iii. 227.) Aegae was a Greek town, but the origin of it is unknown.
A Greek inscription of the Roman period has been discovered there (Beaufort, Karamania,
p. 299); and under the Roman dominion it was a place of some importance. Tacitus
calls it Aegeae (Ann. xiii. 8.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A seaport town of Cilicia.
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