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Musbanda

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
36.541, 32.564
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Cilicia in modern-day Turkey

History

Musbanda or Mousbanda, also called Mousbada, was a town of ancient Cilicia and later of Isauria, inhabited in Roman and Byzantine times. It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

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