cilicia

I've seen it laid out that a better use of the same resources than the Gallipoli campaign would have been landings at Alexandretta and Mersin and a subsequent takeover and fortification of Cilicia: complicating Ottoman resupply of Mesopotamia by cutting the Berlin-Baghdad Railway at Adana...

The War of Antiochene Succession is rather little know, but in my opinion nevertheless rather important, event of Middle-Eastern history during High Middle-Age. Following the death of Bohemon III, Prince of Antioch and Count of Tripoli, two claimants faced each other in an 18 years long...

Up to this day, the Cilician province of Armenia, and principally the important port city of Adana, is noteworthy for its Turkish minority, which has survived many assimilation attempts by the Armenian government and became a significant force in the country’s labour movement, with occasional...

How can we, with a PoD after the Hamidian Massacres of 1896, concoct a scenario whereas a partition agreement of Ottoman imperial territories results in the region of Cilicia (the Adana Vilayet, or parts of it) being allotted to an Armenian state, or an Armenian constituency of a partitioning...

IOTL, Quintus Labienus, son of pro-Caesarian general Titus Labienus, was a rogue general who opposed the Second Triumvirate (42-31 BCE). He estabilished an alliance with Parthia and raided the Roman Oriental provinces, mainly Syria. He was defeated by Marc Antony’ forces in a battle somewhere...