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🏛️ Cybistra-Barata

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🏛️ Cybistra-Barata
Ruins of a Roman frontier settlement in central Anatolia


🕐 2 min read · Updated 16 Mar 2026 at 16:56
📌 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 ...

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