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Saba

Çit Harabe

Saba may owe its spelling to a copyist thinking of the famous Saba, the land of Sheba; elsewhere the place is Sabus, and the late Roman list of garrisons puts mounted archers at Sabbu. It is the fort of Çit Harabe, high above the Çit river on the steep southern slope of the Antitaurus, first laid out for one cavalry unit, later enlarged for a bigger one, and restored under Justinian. A holy spring there drew Armenian Christian pilgrims until recently. On the map the next figure, eighteen miles, about twenty-seven kilometres, is pushed along so as not to cover the drawn mountain range.

Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).

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