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Syca

Ancient city

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
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Coordinates
36.104, 33.017
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: town of ancient Cilicia

History

Syca or Syce or Syke, also called Sycae or Sykai (Συκαί), possibly also called Setos, was a town of ancient Cilicia and later of Isauria, between Arsinoë and Celenderis. It 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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