🏛️ Cybistra-Barata
Ruins of a Roman frontier settlement in central Anatolia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Kayseri Province, central Turkey, on the Cilician Gates trade route
- Served as a Roman military and administrative outpost from the 1st century CE onwards
- Situated at approximately 1,150 metres elevation on the Cappadocia-Cilicia frontier
- Remains largely unexcavated; surface ruins visible among scattered stone foundations
Cybistra-Barata was a fortified Roman settlement positioned strategically along one of antiquity's most significant trade corridors linking the ...