Bandit Highlands and Lowland Peace: the Mountains of Isauria-Cilicia

Abstract

breakdown of provinces subdivided the Cilician Plain, but left mountainous Isauria as a single unit 104). The geographical base for control of the mountains, however, was still a plain; the new provincial centre was Seleukia on the Kalykadnos, the river valley forming the major 'internal plain' of the southern Taurus. The military situation reflected in the Notitza Dzgnztatum emphasizes the continued peculiarity of Isauria as a province; unlike elsewhere, there was no separation of the civil and military commands 15). The same document reveals the continued inadequacy military resources-two legions (Legzones II and III Isaura) and some auxiliary troops, perhaps