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ANAZARBUS (med. Ain Zarba; mod. Navarza)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 944 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANAZARBUS (med. See also:Ain Zarba; mod. Navarza)  , an See also:ancient Cilician See also:city, situated in the Aleian See also:plain about 10 m . W. of the See also:main stream of the Pyramus (Jihun) and near its tributary the Sempas Su . A lofty isolated See also:ridge formed its See also:acropolis . Though some of the See also:masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-See also:Roman, Suidas's See also:identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the See also:wars of See also:Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the See also:face of See also:Strabo's See also:express location of Cyinda in western See also:Cilicia . Under the See also:early Roman See also:empire the See also:place was known as Caesarea, and was the See also:metropolis of Cilicia Secunda . Rebuilt by the See also:emperor See also:Justin after an See also:earthquake, it became Justinopolis (A.D . 525); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I., See also:king of Lesser See also:Armenia, made it his See also:capital early in the 12th See also:century, it was known as Anazarva . Its See also:great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the See also:Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician See also:gates, made See also:Anazarbus See also:play a considerable See also:part in the struggles between the See also:Byzantine empire and the early Moslem invaders . It had been rebuilt by See also:Harun al-Rashid in 796 A.D., refortified at great expense by Saif addaula, the Hamdanid (loth century) and Saiked, and ruined by the crusaders . The See also:present See also:wall of the See also:lower city is of See also:late construction, probably Armenian . It encloses a See also:mass of ruins conspicuous in which are a See also:fine triumphal See also:arch, the colonnades of two streets, a gymnasium, &c . A See also:stadium and a See also:theatre See also:lie outside on the See also:south .

The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the See also:

rock; but beyond ruins of two churches and a fine See also:tower built by Thoros I. there are no notable structures in the upper See also:town . For picturesqueness the site is not equalled in Cilicia, and it is See also:worth while to trace the three fine aqueducts to their See also:sources . (D . G .

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