Cilicia as a multicultural region. Indigenous and foreign people in Roman and Byzantine inscriptions
Ancient Cilicia – both the Eastern fertile plain (Cilicia Piana or Pedias) and the Western rough area (Cilicia Aspera or Tracheia) – was a key crossroads of people and cultures, in a crucial point between East and West. Due to its strategic geographic position connecting Anatolia and Syria and to the presence the Mediterranean coast to the South, the region was characterised by manifold processes of mobility, migrations and interchanges between people and cultures throughout its history.