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the coast through Issus and Iskenderun, and opened into the Orontes Plain near Alalah or Antioch. These two routes provided access from Cilicia to the plains of the northern Levant and Mesopotamia.

The most important route of the Cilician Plain, since antiquity, has run from the Amanus passes to the Taurus passes. This route comes from northern Syria,

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