Three years later, he was part of a major Abbasid force that invaded Anatolia through the Cilician Gates.
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In 1097 the Crusaders divided their forces at Heraclea and Tancred entered the Levant by passing south through the Cilician Gates.
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Severus besieged Byzantium, crossed the G�lek Pass ( Cilician Gates ), and defeated Niger at the Battle of Issus.
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He then went on and changed Cilician Gates to Gulek pass in number of articles, This is when I reverted him nineteen times.
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Ashinas crossed the Cilician Gates on 19 June, and the caliph himself with his main army set out on the march two days later.
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On its long rough descent from the Anatolian plateau to Tarsus, it ran through the narrow pass between walls of rock called the Cilician Gates.
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It is in the Toros Mountains at an altitude of about, north of the main passage of the mountain system known as Cilician Gates ( ).
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It goes through the famous Cilician Gates, the rocky pass through which armies have coursed since the dawn of history, and continues to the Anatolian plain.
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This may explain why at 4, 500 BCE, at the southeastern end of the Cilician Gates was one of the world's first existing fortresses ( later Mersin ).
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In 832 al-Ma'mun repeated his invasion of the Byzantine borderlands, capturing the strategically important fortress of Loulon, a success that consolidated Abbasid control of both exits of the Cilician Gates.
