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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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