Kilikes

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The Kilikes ( Greek  Κίλικες ) were an ancient people who resided in the southern Troas . Their capital was Thebe . They are called by Homer , afterwards their king was Eetion , and by Strabo .

Kilikes were also called the inhabitants of the ancient landscape Kilikia . The relationship between these two is unknown.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Homer, Iliad 6:397, 415.
  2. ^ Strabo 13, 1, 7.