Cilician Gates
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gülek Boğazı, Kilikia pylai
mountain pass in southern Turkey
Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,050 m (3,445 ft)
- Traversed by
- O-21 / E90
- Location
- Mersin Province , Turkey
- Range
- Taurus Mountains
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain pass
- Country
- Turkey
- Elevation
- 1280
- Image
- Puertas Cilícias.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cilician Gates
- native label
- Gülek Boğazı
- mountain range
- Taurus mountains
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Cilician Gates or Gülek Pass is a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the narrow gorge of the Gökoluk River. Its highest elevation is about 1000m.
The Cilician Gates have been a major commercial and military artery for millennia. In the early 20th century, a narrow-gauge railway was built through them, and today, the Tarsus-Ankara Highway (E90, O-21) passes through them.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cilician Gates” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.