Silifke

Silifke

Understand Seleucia (Σελεύκεια) was one of over two dozen cities named for Seleucus I Nicator, the successor to Alexander the Great who came to rule much of Asia Minor: this one was distinguished as "Seleucia on the Calycadnus". That river is now called the Göksu, and it creates a fertile valley and a transport route inland through the mountains. The city included the port of Holmi, nowadays Taşucu, but that was vulnerable to maritime attack. So Silifke was not too far and not too near the sea. Silifke's economy has always been mainly agricultural, but it industrialised in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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