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Ayas is a small town in
Yumurtalık district,
Adana Province,
Turkey, located east of the mouth of the
Ceyhan River. It was the ancient
Aegea and medieval
Ajazzo or
Lajazzo.
The
Cilician port city of
Aegea or
Aegeae is mentioned in
Pausanias, v.21.11. On its coinage, it's called
Aigai like the archaic capital of
Macedon. It was located on the Gulf of Issus (modern
Gulf of İskenderun). The city was mentioned in
Tacitus'
Annals XIII:8: War between
Armenia/
Rome and
Iberia/
Parthia. At Aegeae
Apollonius of Tyana made his early studies in the 1st century CE, when the city was at its cultural height. The city of Aegea was the site of the martyrdom of Thallelaios during the reign of
Numerian (283-284 CE). The Orthodox Church celebrates his feast on May 20. In Aegea, probably their natal city, Saints
Cosmas and Damian performed their legendary cures in the early 4th century.
Ayas became an important harbour city of the
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in the second half of the
13th, when with the fall of
Acre and the silting up of the harbor of
Tarsus, it became the center of trade between the West and the East, benefitting from its good roads east.
Marco Polo disembarked here to begin his trip to China in 1271.
The naval
Battle of Ayas (also known as
Battle of Laiazzo) was fought near the city in
1294 and resulted in a victory of the
Genoese fleet over the Venetians. Some scholars believe that Marco Polo was taken prisoner on that occasion.
Ayas passed between the
Mamluks and the Armenians several times in the
13th and
14th centuries, and was definitively taken by the Mamluks in 1347. Under the Ottomans, it was a
kaza in the
eyalet of
Adana.
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