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loaded with calcareous matter, which, after fertilizing the plain, fall 

 over the cliffs, or turn the corn-mills in their descent to the sea. 



Alternate breezes refresh the air in a remarkable manner^; for 

 the daily sea-breeze sweeps up the western side of the gulf with 

 accumulated strength ; and at night, the great northern valley which 

 appears to traverse the chain of Mount Taurus, conducts the land 

 wind from the cold mountains of the interior. Upon the whole, 

 it would be difficult to select a more charming spot for a city.^ 



In the Middle Ages, Satalia was the most important place on 

 the southern coast of Asia Minor, having regard to its strength 

 and commerce,^ though it did not equal Ayas.* It lay in the 

 empire of Iconium, Roum, or Turkey, whose sultan, with his 

 capital at Konieh (Coyne), was the richest monarch in pagan- 

 dom, according to Joinville^ ; and Iconium formed the eastern 

 part of Asia Minor, as Romania, belonging to the Greeks of Con- 

 stantinople, formed the western part, from Mount Olympus to 

 the Taurus.^ 



In August, 1 36 1, Pierre I, King of Cyprus, sailed from Cyprus 

 to Satalia with a fleet of about 119 vessels. Here he arrived on 

 the 23d, and at dawn of the next day advanced wuth scaling- 

 ladders and arblasts to the assault. Cutting down all who 

 opposed, the army was soon within the walls and in possession 

 of the castle, before the emir, named Tacca,^ who had remained 

 outside the city in order to fall on the army's rear, was in a 

 position to attack it. Finally he succeeded in entering the city 

 by an underground passage, but seeing the Christian helmets on 



^Mas Latrie (Bibl, p. 493) says that the mountains in the vicinity 

 keep off the breezes, so that the heat is excessive and dangerous. 



^ The best modern description is by Lanckoronski, Stddte Pamphyliens 

 and Pisidiens i. xi, 6-32, 153-163, with maps and pictures. See also the 

 view in Beaufort, opp. p. 126. Roger of Hoveden, at the end of the 

 twelfth century, has a brief description (Bohn tr. 2. 248). Richard I was 

 in the Gulf of Satalia on May i, 1191 (Stubbs, p. 161). 



^Bibl, pp. 326, 492; cf. Heyd i. 335-6, 598-9; 2. 355-6, 543- 



*Heyd I. 598. 



^ Hist, de Saint Louis, ed. de Wailly, § 141. For the commerce, see 

 BibL, pp. 304-5, 307, 315, 323, 329. For the harbor, see Pauly-Wissowa, 

 p. 2156. For legends concerning the Gulf of Satalia, see Roger of 

 Hoveden (Rolls Series 3. 157; Bohn tr. 2. 248-9), who derives from 

 Benedict of Peterborough (ed. Stubbs, 2. 195-7) ; cf. Stubbs, p. 148. 



'BibL, p. 302; cf. Roger de Hoveden, Bohn tr. 2. 249-250. 



' Perhaps from the name of the country that he governed. 



