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Singa

??? Sevdilli Hanı, Elbistan

Singa leaves a choice. Older research saw in it the Singa of Commagene named by the geographer Ptolemy, shifted here by the mapmaker, although that town appears elsewhere on the map as Sugga. If instead the map has placed it correctly, its distance figure leads to Sevdilli Hanı near Elbistan, the ruins of a Seljuk caravanserai, around which several Roman milestones have been found. The name might then be a slip for the Latin singula, single, though local names beginning with Sing are common in Asia Minor.

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