cilician

Cilicia [si-lish-uh] EXAMPLES| noun an ancient country in SE Asia Minor: later a Roman province. Liberaldictionary.com

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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 cilician Historical Examples of cilician

The Cilician queen is said to have requested Cyrus to show her his army.

The First Four Books of Xenophon’s Anabasis

Xenophon

In the Cilician province, as it is called, is Mazaca,1091 the capital of the nation.

The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3)

Strabo

Andronicus was later given a second command on the Cilician frontier.

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Alfred Brittain

But we were getting out of the Cilician Plain and the Taurus was with us again.

By Desert Ways to Baghdad

Louisa Jebb

Meanwhile the Easterns met at Seleucia near the Cilician coast.

The Arian Controversy

H. M. Gwatkin

British Dictionary definitions for cilician Cilician adjective of or relating to Cilicia (an ancient region of SE Asia Minor) or its inhabitants noun a native or inhabitant of 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