Cilicia [si-lish-uh] EXAMPLES| noun an ancient country in SE Asia Minor: later a Roman province. Liberaldictionary.com
Related formsCi·li·cian, adjective, noun Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cilicia Historical Examples of cilicia
From this place they endeavoured to force a passage into Cilicia.
Xenophon
From Issi, he marched a single stage—five parasangs—to the gates of Cilicia and Syria.
Xenophon
Then they manned their ships, and waited for Pompey at Coracesium, in Cilicia.
Plutarch
The Turks retreated into the mountains between Syria and Cilicia.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year
Edwin Emerson
Simplicius, a native of Cilicia, lived in the 6th century of our era.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
Augustus de Morgan
British Dictionary definitions for cilicia Cilicia noun an ancient region and former kingdom of SE Asia Minor, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean: corresponds to the region around present-day Adana Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012