Selinous/Traianopolis

settlement · 750 BC – 640 AD

Selinous/Traianopolis was a city of Cilicia Aspera and counted among the chief coastal cities of Cilicia. It is perhaps best known as the place where Trajan died in A.D. 117 en route to Rome from his campaigns in the East.

Coordinates

36.25851, 32.28273

Also known as

Selinitis, Selinous, Selinunte (la), Selinvnte (la), Traianopolis

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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