Book 2
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That part of the Mediterranean Sea which washes the coasts of Cilicia and Pamphylia together with the right side of the Euxine, the Propontis, and the sea-coast beyond this as far as Pamphylia, form a kind of extensive Chersonesus, the isthmus of which is also large, and reaches from the sea near TarsusTarsous. to the city of Amisus,Samsoun. and thence to the ThemiscyranThemiscyra, a town of Cappadocia at the mouth of the Thermodon, (now the Termeh,) belonging to the kingdom of the Amazons. The territories around it bore the same name. The plain is now comprehended in the modern Djanik. plain of the Amazons. In fact the whole region within this line as far as Caria and Ionia, and the nations dwelling on this side the Halys,Kizil-Ermak. is entirely surrounded by the Aegaean and the aforementioned parts of the Mediterranean and Euxine Seas.Lit. the before-mentioned parts of the sea on either side. This is what we call Asia properly,Asia Minor, or Anadoli. although the whole continent bears the same name.
