The Ancient City Of Soloi In Cilicia

The Cilician city of Soloi [Soli Pompeipolis-Mersin/Mezitli/Viranşehir] was inhabited by an indigenous Luwian people during the Bronze Age, but may have been destroyed by the Sea Peoples during the Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BC. The site, which had access to the Mediterranean Sea, as well as to the timber-rich Taurus Mountains and the fertile plains of Cilicia Pedias, was resettled in the seventh century BC by Greek colonists, variously claimed to have been of Athenian, Argive and Rhodian origin.

However, Soloi became part of a vassal Cilician kingdom subject to the Great Kings of Persia under Cyrus the Great. After 401 BC, Cilicia was reorganized as a Persian satrapy [province] to which Soloi also belonged. The...

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