Road station

Arega

Akcadağ, ehem. Arga

Arega is probably Arca, at Akcadağ, formerly Arga, on a hill where the road entered the Antitaurus. Arca was perhaps one of the colonies of veterans founded by Hadrian at the edge of the plain of Malatya, a bishop's seat from 431 and still a fortress in the Middle Ages; a man from Arca, Philagrius, exchanged letters with Saint Basil of Caesarea. The map, though, counts fifty-seven miles, about eighty-four kilometres, and three more stations from here to Melitene, where the Roman register of routes has only twenty-eight miles and none in between.

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