Tarsus: All Data
Tarsus is a city in Turkey. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Mersin: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
670 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Que, part of Assyrian Empire
611 BC
Capital of Kingdom of Cilicia
500 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Satrapy of Cilicia, part of Achaemenid Empire
333 BC
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire
315 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
301 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Third War of the Diadochi
301 BC
Mentioned in Event: Fourth War of the Diadochi
293 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Third War of the Diadochi
270 BC
Mentioned in Event: First Syrian War
197 BC
Mentioned in Event: Fifth Syrian War
82 BC
Mentioned in Event: Armenian Occupation of Syria
66 BC
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaign of Pompey in Cilicia
42 BC
Mentioned in Event: Liberators' Civil War
40 BC
Mentioned in Event: Persian Invasion (Antony's Atropatene campaign)
39 BC
Mentioned in Event: Roman Counterattack
117 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Cilicia, part of Roman Empire
261 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns of Shapur I in Syria and Mesopotamia
261 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sasanian Campaign of Odaenathus
270 AD
Mentioned in Event: Secession of the Kingdom of Palmyra
274 AD
Mentioned in Event: Reconquest of the Kingdom of Palmyra
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire
638 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of Southern Anatolia
832 AD
Mentioned in Event: Arab-Byzantine Wars
1081 AD
Capital of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
1097 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Crusade
1138 AD
Mentioned in Event: Byzantine-Seljuq wars
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Cilicia Campaign
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Franco-Turkish War
1920 AD
Mentioned in: Karboğazı ambush, part of Franco-Turkish War
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Franco-Turkish War
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: French Withdrawal (Franco-Turkish War)
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Mersin Province, part of Republic of Türkiye