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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:16 am Post subject: Cilician Pirates |
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Cilician Pirates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilician_pirates
https://www.livius.org/articles/people/cilician-pirates/
Cilician pirates dominated the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompey in 67-66 BC.
One of the pirates' main sources of income was slavery.
Because there were notorious pirate strongholds in Cilicia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), the term "Cilician" was long used to generically refer to any pirates in the Mediterranean. |
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