Epiphania, Cilicia

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Epiphaneia (Greek Ἐπιφανεία ), originally Oiniandos, was an ancient city in the " flat " Cilicia in southeastern Asia Minor in modern Turkey.

The city received its new name Seleucid ruler Antiochus by the IV Epiphanes at the beginning of the 2nd century BC, 67 BC moved the Roman general Pompey defeated Cilician pirates in there. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries Epiphaneia minted its own coins. 260 AD, the city was taken by the troops of the Sassanid Shapur I.. In late antiquity Epiphaneia belonged to the province of Cilicia Secunda. On a late Roman Diocese of the city, the titular Epiphany goes back in Cilicia of the Roman Catholic Church.

Extensive ruins of the city are a few miles west of the Turkish get local Erzin. This includes an aqueduct, a theater and two Byzantine churches. The ruins as those of the ancient town Issus battle are called locally, but the well was located about ten kilometers to the south at Dörtyol.