Cyinda () was an ancient

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n city, situated in

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in modern

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. Cyinda in western Cilicia was famous as a treasure city in the wars of

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. It apparently served as a collection point where booty from the Asian interior was stored for shipment to

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. "Despite the removal of great quantities of wealth from Cyinda at various times by Antigonus and his son,

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, this fortress continued to possess large amounts of treasure, and for years during the fourth and third centuries 'the gold of Cyinda' was world famous." Its exact location is unknown; it is possible that it is to be identified with the fortress known in Assyrian as Kundi, which played a similar role in the

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in the time of

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.Bing, "A Further Note on Cyinda/''Kundi''," p. 346. It was formerly wrongly identified with Anazarba.

Bibliography

*R.H. Simpson, "A Note on Cyinda,
''Historia'' 6 (1957): 503-04
*J.D. Bing, "A Further Note on Cyinda/''Kundi'',
''Historia'' 22 (1973): 346-350

References

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