The Cilician Gates or Gülek Pass is a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the narrow gorge of the Gökoluk River. Its highest elevation is about 1000m.[2]
The Cilician Gates have been a major commercial and military artery for millennia.[3] In the early 20th century, a narrow-gauge railway was built through them, and today, the Tarsus-Ankara Highway (E90, O-21) passes through them.
The southern end of the Cilician gates is about 44 km north of Tarsus and the northern end leads to Cappadocia.
^"Mersin-Coğrafya" (in Turkish). Mersin Şehir Rehberi. Retrieved March 1, 2009.[dead link]
^W.L. Williams, Armenia, p. 8-11, quoted in Josephus Nelson Larned, The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and researchs.v. "Armenia" full text
^William Mitchell Ramsay, The historical geography of Asia Minor, 1890, passim full text
The CilicianGates or Gülek Pass is a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the narrow...
The Battle of the CilicianGates in 39 BC was a decisive victory for the Roman general Publius Ventidius over the Parthian army and its Roman allies who...
The Gates of Alexander, also known as the Caspian Gates, are one of several mountain passes in eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Persia separating the...
Կիլիկիոյ Հայոց Թագաւորութիւն, Kiligio Hayoc’ T’akavorut’iun), also known as Cilician Armenia (Armenian: Կիլիկեան Հայաստան, Kilikyan Hayastan, Armenian: Հայկական...
Palestine, and Phoenicia. Probus took advantage of the terrain of the CilicianGates, and the hot climate of the area, to which Florianus' army was unaccustomed...
Anatolia, and which are pierced by a narrow gorge called in antiquity the CilicianGates. Ancient Cilicia was naturally divided into Cilicia Trachea (Latin:...
beacons began with the fortress of Loulon, on the northern exit of the CilicianGates, and continued with Mt. Argaios (identified mostly with Keçikalesı on...
highest point in the Central Taurus is Mt. Demirkazık (3,756m). The CilicianGates or Gülek Pass has been the principal pass through the Eastern Taurus...
(the best of King Orodes' military commanders) at the Battle of the CilicianGates and the Amanus Pass. After hearing of the battles while in Athens, Antony...
Cappadocia. They sack the Byzantine city of Caesarea, move south through the CilicianGates and raid the region around Antioch in Syria. March 3 – Battle on the...
the CilicianGates and Ancyra, camping on the north bank of the River Halys, close to one of the major river crossings. Ashinas crossed the Cilician Gates...
of the importance of Northern Syria to the vital routes linking the Ciliciangates with Mesopotamia, defense of this area was crucial, and was soon put...
– Battle of Kopidnadon: An Abbasid expeditionary force crosses the CilicianGates into the Anatolic Theme (modern Turkey). It is confronted by two Byzantine...
defeated Quintus Labienus and the Parthian general Phranipates in the CilicianGates; Labienus attempted to disguise himself and flee, but he was caught...
the north of Antioch at the CilicianGates, despite some initial success. The Persians then captured Tarsus and the Cilician plain. This defeat cut the...
was of strategic importance as it controlled the northern exit of the CilicianGates. In the 8th–9th centuries it was located on the border between the Byzantine...
Baldwin Locomotive Works Record of Recent Construction No. 46 (1904). CilicianGates, accessed 2007-09-14 "presentation at Zurich University of Applied Sciences/ZHAW|ZHAW...
the CilicianGates so that Tuwana was the first area travellers would reach after leaving Ḫiyawa to the north by passing through the CilicianGates to...
the Taurus Mountains, the fortress guarded passes to Tarsus and the CilicianGates. Like many castles in the mountainous landscape of the former Armenian...
surprised Labienus near the Taurus Mountains, claiming victory at the CilicianGates. Ventidius ordered Labienus executed as a traitor and the formerly rebellious...
always recognized as the spiritual leader. After passing through the CilicianGates, Baldwin and Tancred broke away from the main body of the army and set...
Global Information
O-21 / E90
