Tarsus

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ancient city former populated place settlement

Tarsus is an ancient city in Cilicia (in modern-day Turkey) known as a major cultural and commercial center of the Roman Empire and as the birthplace of the Apostle Paul.

Aliases (1)

Tarsus of Cilicia ×1

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city → former populated place → settlement →
country	Turkey →
foundedBy	Assyrians → Greeks → Hittites →
grantedStatus	free city by the Romans →
hasAncientName	Tarsos → Tarsus of Cilicia →
hasArchaeologicalSite	Cleopatra’s Gate → Roman baths → Roman road → St. Paul’s Well → ancient city walls → ancient theater →
hasEvent	meeting of Mark Antony and Cleopatra →
hasHistoricalRegion	Cilicia →
hasNotablePerson	Athenodorus Cananites → Diodorus of Tarsus → Nestor of Tarsus → Paul the Apostle → Theodore of Mopsuestia →
knownFor	Roman provincial capital → birthplace of Paul the Apostle → major commercial center in antiquity → major cultural center in antiquity → philosophical schools in Hellenistic period → strategic position on trade routes → university-level schools in Roman era →
languageHistoricallySpoken	Arabic → Aramaic → Greek → Latin →
locatedBetween	Mediterranean coast and Taurus Mountains →
locatedIn	Asia Minor → Byzantine Empire → Cilicia → Mediterranean Region → Mersin Province → Ottoman Empire → Roman Empire →
locatedInPresentDay	Turkey →
locatedNear	Adana → Mediterranean Sea →
locatedOn	Tarsus River →
modernLanguageSpoken	Turkish →
modernSettlementType	city → district →
onTradeRoute	route between Mesopotamia and Aegean → route between Syria and central Anatolia →
partOf	Cilicia Pedias →
religionHistorically	Greco-Roman paganism → Islam → early Christianity →
servedAs	capital of the Roman province of Cilicia →
timeInhabitedSince	Bronze Age →
underRuleOf	Abbasid Caliphate → Byzantine Empire → Hellenistic Seleucid Empire → Ottoman Empire → Persian Achaemenid Empire → Roman Empire → Roman Republic →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Apostle Paul → Nectarius of Constantinople →	birthPlace
al-Ma'mun →	burialPlace
Cilician Armenia →	earlierCapital
Tarsus ("Tarsus of Cilicia") →	hasAncientName