🏛️ Korykos-Seleukeia Tracheia
Ruined Hellenistic and Roman port city on the Cilician coast
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near modern Kızkalesi, Mersin Province, southern Turkey
- Twin cities founded in the Hellenistic period; flourished under Roman rule
- Served as a major Mediterranean trading port for grain, timber, and goods
- Remains include city walls, towers, a harbor, temples, and Byzantine fortifications
Korykos and Seleukeia Tracheia were two adjacent port cities on the Cilician coast that developed as significant commercial centers during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The sites occupy the modern Kızkalesi peninsula in Mersin Province, Turkey, and represent important evidence of maritime trade networks across the eastern Mediterranean. Both cities were ultimately abandoned in the medieval period, leaving behind substantial archaeological remains largely unexcavated ...