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Adrasus

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
36.656, 33.130
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Cilicia in modern-day Turkey

History

Adrasus or Adrasos was a town of ancient Cilicia, and in the later province of Isauria, inhabited in Roman and Byzantine times. It later became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

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