Anazarbe
Anazarbe (or Anazarve , in Turkish Anarzaba , Latin Anazarbus , Armenian Անարզաբա , Arabic Ain Zarba عينزربا) is an old city and fortress of Cilicie, on the river Pyrame, today in Turkey.
Important economic counter gained by Pumped on Tigrane II the Large one at the same time as the whole of Cilicie and Syria of North, it was flourishing under the emperors, and became at the 5th century capital of Cilicie.
Taken into 638 by the Arabs, it was taken again by Nicéphore II Phocas into 962. But the victory of the Turks Seldjoukides over the Byzantines with Manzikert in 1071 allowed the installation of Armenians in the area, when the Armenian Thoros Ier took Anazarbe.
Recovered by the Byzantines after a 37 day old seat in 1137, the city was taken again by Thoros II, then again by the Byzantines in 1156.
The defeat of the Byzantines in front of the Turks with Myriocéphalon in 1176 put a term at the Byzantine ambitions in the area and allowed the introduction of the Royaume of Small-Arménie in the area, whose Anazarbe was the capital at the 12th century.
The city fell definitively to the hands from the Othomans in 1375.
She suffered much from several earthquakes. One sees the ruins to 50 km of them. in the North-East of Adana. She is the fatherland of Dioscoride.
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