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Tar-Sar |
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Tarsus- a city in south-central Turkey at the foot of the Taurus Mountains, near the Cilician Gates (which pass through the mountains) and the mouth of the Tarsus Çay (Cydnus) originally based on the coastline, (now 20 km inland) from the Mediteranean Sea. |
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The city is reputed to have been founded over 9,000 years and has remained an important junction of land and sea routes connecting the fertile Cilician plan, central Anatolia and the Mediteranean Sea. |
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From 400 BCE, the city was the seat of a Persian satrapy. |
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The schools of Tarsus rivaled Athens and Alexandria and in its time the library of Tarsus held 200,000 books, including a huge collection of scientific works. |
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Pompey subjected Tarsus to Rome and made it the capital of the Roman province of Cilicia and in the rarest of honors, a large number of the inhabitants of the city together received Roman citizenship. |
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