Arsinoe (Cilicia)

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Arsinoe (Greek: Ἀρσινόη) was an ancient city on the coast of Cilicia between Anemurium and Celenderus; the site is near the modern city of Bozyazı, Mersin Province, Turkey. Strabo (p. 670) mentions Arsinoe as having a port. Leake places it at or near the ruined modern castle, called Söfta Kalesi (Sokhta Kálesi), just west of Bozyazı, below which is a port, such as Strabo describes at Arsinoe, and a peninsula on the east side of the harbor covered with ruins. (Asia Minor, p. 201.) This modern site is east of Anemurium, and west of, and near to, Kızil Burnu (Cape Kizliman). (Beaufort's Karamania). The city was founded by Ptolemy Philadelphus and named for Arsinoe II of Egypt, his sister and wife.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857).