The Ancient City Of Soli
Soli (also Soloi, Solipolis and Pompeipolis), an ancient city in Mersin.
The ancient city soli ruin is a large site close to the waterfront and is located within the boundaries of the Mersin metropolitan municipality. Mezitli metropolitan municipality is set in Viransehir.
Around 700 BC, at soli city years was founded by Dorians coming from the island of Rhodes. The name means Sun City. The God of the Sun worship of dorians possibly kent's name is related to religious beliefs.
But not all the time and the city Soli Rhodes relationship largely autonomous as soon as the busiest ports in the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia. According to some records, Greece's Attica Delos was a member of the Alliance. But, after the Persian wars, was left to the Persians in 449 BC. However, the period of Persian domination of the city's autonomy.
Kent, 333 BC Alexander the great in (356-323 BC) by Alexander the Macedonian empire, the Empire of Selevki from (or the Seleucids). A powerful Navy is a town in the Selevki Empire as he continued the development of the port. But Selevki lived in the city during the period of instability that weight-loss Empire, and often changed hands. Even the Armenian Emperor Tigranes II in 83 BC, there were destroyed.
After the Selevki Empire collapse, all the southern coast of Anatolia had been the pirate refuge. The pirates were doing protracted voyages as far as Rome. Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor (r. 110-44) and eliminate the vampire's Lair of pirates, as well as its rivals saw Pompey (106 BC-48) to drive away from the capital is a big time against the pirates and assigned to command, not in the sea, simple to Pompey coastal regions also gives you a great powers kicked out of the law. (His real name is Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Pompey with Caesar, he was a member of the triumvirs and 1 informal in Rome had many fan.)
Pompey today's Mersin province at the end of his time on the beaches of all pirate destroyed the shelter. But Pompey's forgiveness being savvy hackers that 64 BC, the city of Soli was declared pirated forgiveness. The ruined city of onarttı and gave their name to the city according to the time pieces. The city was known as Pompeipolis after that. [1]
Soli Eastern Roman (Byzantium) Empire in the period of a busy harbour. But the M. S. in city history as the great Antioch earthquake 528, and apparently it is a very severe earthquake eventually destroyed to a great extent. Although an attempt was made to onarılmağa. But a century later into the hands of the Arab Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean coastline have reduced the importance of the port. Kent was abandoned later.