🏛️ Zephyrion-Soloi Pompeiopolis
Hellenistic and Roman coastal settlement in Cilicia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Mersin Province, southern Türkiye, on the Mediterranean coast
- Dual settlement: Zephyrion (Hellenistic) and Soloi Pompeiopolis (Roman period)
- Founded as a Greek colony; reorganized under Pompey the Great in the 1st century BCE
- Largely unexcavated; archaeological survey work conducted in recent decades
Zephyrion-Soloi Pompeiopolis represents a layered settlement history spanning Hellenistic and Roman periods on the Cilician coast. The site ...