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🏛️ Germanicea-Kokousos

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🏛️ Germanicea-Kokousos
Ruins of a Roman frontier settlement in southern Anatolia


🕐 2 min read · Updated 15 Mar 2026 at 13:10
📌 Fast Facts
  • Located in Mersin Province, southern Türkiye, near the Syrian border
  • Founded as a Roman military and trade settlement in the 1st century CE
  • Served as a garrison town controlling the Cilician Gates mountain pass
  • Archaeological site remains largely unexcavated; surface ruins visible

Germanicea-Kokousos is an archaeological site of a Roman settlement established in the Cilician plain of southern Anatolia. The ...

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