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English > Russian: Tourist guidebook to sites in Turkey, 372 pages

The topic is a tourist guidebook to sites in Turkey.

The book has 372 pages.

We would like to have it completed by January 15, 2015.

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Zile (40° 18′ 15″ N, 35° 53′ 26″ E), also known as Zela, 57 km S of Amasya (Amaseia), was a Persian walled temple settlement at the intersection of major trade routes. In 334 BCE Alexander the Great captured Zile from Darius III of Persia following his victory at the battle of Granicus. Following Alexander's death in 323 BCE and collapse of his empire, Zile became part of the Seleucid Empire for the next 200 years, until it was absorbed into the emerging Pontic Kingdom. In 88 BCE King Mithridates VI of Pontus conquered Zile and killed all Romans living there. After the Roman army defeated Mithridates in the First Mithridatic War, Sulla fortified Zile as a Roman garrison point. Mithridates attacked Zile again in 67 BCE with the help of his Armenian ally Tigranes the Great. Here he defeated Valerius Trianus, lieutenant of Lucullus, and initiated the Third Mithridatic War. In Pompey's settlement of Pontus, Zile received a civic constitution and a sizable territory. In 49 BCE, when civil war raged between Julius Caesar and Pompey, Pharnaces II of Pontus, son of Mithridates VI, reconquered Zile. Pharnaces seriously underestimated the tenacity of Julius Caesar. In 47 BCE after defeating Ptolemaic forces at the Battle of the Nile, Caesar left Egypt and travelled N through Syria, Cilicia and Cappadocia to reach Pharnaces. The battle took place at Zile, where the Pontic army had positioned itself near the hilltop. As Caesar's men entrenched themselves on nearby high ground, the Pontic force suddenly and unexpectedly attacked. Although Pharnaces gained some ground in the initial confusion, Caesar’s veteran force soon recovered. Caesar counter-attacked, and drove the Pontic army back downhill, where it broke into a complete rout. In five hours of fighting Pharnaces' army was completely destroyed and Caesar's army suffered significant losses. After his successful five-day campaign against Pharnaces, Caesar wrote to the Roman Senate “Veni, vidi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered). Much later in 241, Persian King Shapur I defeated Roman Emperor Valerian and captured Zile. For the next eight hundred years Zile was a point of contention between Rome and Persia, until the Turks captured Zile in 1071.

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