Mountain home of the storm god: Hittite İvriz

Despite a history going back at least 2,500 years, and a strategic position close to the Cilcian Gates, the town today has no sights of specific interest. Known as Heraclea Cybistra in the Hellenistic period, it was a crucial Byzantine garrison town until its capture by the Arabs in the ninth century
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