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WHAT DOES CILICIAN GATES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cilician Gates

Cilician Gates

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. The Cilician Gates have been a major commercial and military artery for millennia. In the early 20th century, a narrow-gauge railway was built through them, and today, the Tarsus-Ankara Highway passes through them. The southern end of the Cilician gates is about 44 km north of Tarsus and the northern end leads to Cappadocia.

Definition of Cilician Gates in the English dictionary

The definition of Cilician Gates in the dictionary is a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains Turkish name: Gülek Bogaz.

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Translation of «Cilician Gates» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

Cilician盖茨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Puertas de Cilicia
570 millions of speakers

English

Cilician Gates
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Cilician गेट्स
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

غيتس array(سليسن)
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

киликийские Гейтс
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Portões Cilician
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিলিয়ান গেটস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Portes de Cilicie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cilician Gates
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kilikischen Tore
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キリキア峠
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Cilician 게이츠
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cilician Gates
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Cilician Gates
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிசிலியன் கேட்ஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सिलियायन गेट्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kilikya Kapıları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Gates cilici
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cilician Gates
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Киликийские Гейтс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Gates cilicieni
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Πύλες Κιλικίας
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Cilician Gates
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

ciliciska Gates
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

kilikiske Gates
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CILICIAN GATES»

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Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an ...
Silo was to ride as far as the Cilician Gates, the narrow pass in the Taurus Mountains through which ran a military highway built on Julius Caesar's orders and that led all the way to Antioch in Syria. While Silo set off to secure the pass, ...
Stephen Dando-Collins, 2011
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Battle of the Cilician Gates
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Zheng Cirino, 2012
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From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
Once an attacker had arrived in Cilicia, other Gates awaited him beyond Issus, which Xenophon calls the Cilician Gates and the Syrian Gates (pass of the Portelle): They consisted of two walls; the one on the hither, or Cilician, side was held by ...
Pierre Briant, 2002
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Ancient Cappadocia, Including: Caphtor, Cilician Gates, ...
We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Ancient Cappadocia.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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The Historical Geography of Asia Minor
His march diverged near the site of Laodiceia Combusta from the later trade- route, and took a more southerly path. From Iconium he went to Dana or Tyana, the important city at the northern entrance to the chief pass through the Cilician Gates, ...
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, 1890
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Cilicia, Including: Anazarbus, Adana, Mopsuestia, Caphtor, ...
This particular book is a collaboration focused on Cilicia.More info: In antiquity, Cilicia (Armenian: Greek:, Middle Persian: klky y, Parthian: kylky, Turkish: Kilikya) now known as ukurova, was a commonly used name of the south coastal ...
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und ...
The upper reaches of the Sarus (Seyhan), with its tributary the Carmelus, must likewise have been excluded — for it coincided exactly with the Cilician Gates ( the Gulek Bogazi), where a rock-cut inscription states explicitly 'the Cilician ...
Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase, 1980
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Chronos, Kairos, Christos: Nativity and Chronological ...
According to a hypothetical chronology of five months and more for the distance from the Cilician Gates to Athens (see Table 2), one obtains the following chart: Arrival at Corinth Stay of eighteen months at Corinth Encounter with Gallio ...
Jerry Vardaman, Edwin M. Yamauchi, 1989
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The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia During the Crusades: The ...
Cilician Gates pass in the Taurus Mountains and stretching eastward to the shores of the northern Euphrates. Oshin of Lampron, a direct descendant of the house of Hetum, dominated the areas west of the Cilician Gates, and being of Greek ...
Jacob G. Ghazarian, 2000
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The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of ...
The place was called the Cilician Gates, she wrote in her autobiography; she was to stop there again on many subsequent journeys, sometimes in the early morning and sometimes in the middle of the night, but she would always remember ...
Andrew Eames, 2006

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CILICIAN GATES»

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Third Digital Exhibit on Armenian Genocide Released
... city of Marash and the Cilician Plain and back up through the high passes of the Cilician Gates of the Taurus Range, the only accessible road ... «Asbarez Armenian News, Feb 15»
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Archaeology: Acropolis of forgotten kingdom uncovered
... who said that "southern Cappadocia is important because it controlled the Cilician Gates, or the passageway between the East and the West ... «ANSAmed, Feb 12»
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Traditionally they've been painted as a noble mission. Now, two new …
There are place names with the ring of legend: the Cilician Gates, the Horns of Hattin, or the mighty castle of Krak des Chevaliers in Syria, ... «Daily Mail, Feb 10»
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The Great Monastery of St. Gabriel in Captivity
Christianity spread into the region primarily along the route from Tarsus through the Cilician Gates, Caesarea (Mazaca; modern Kayseri), ... «Assyria Times, May 09»
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Why Turkey Matters
It shows how Turkey, possessing the escape route via land—the Cilician Gates mountain pass—will actually betray those Israelis, Americans and British who are ... «theTrumpet.com, Oct 07»

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