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Only the successor to the Medes, the Achaemenid Persians, laid claim to the entire peninsula. Some regions belonged to dependent princes, the same as in the era of the Hittites. Isolated spots were practically independent.^[1]

Troy, Taurus, Anti-Taurus ^[1]

Principle Features of Eastern Anatolia: Nemrut, Sipan, Ararat, Binguel^[2]

Everyday that the Macedonians spent in Anatolia was a day in which the Persians could rush troops to the Cilician Gates and block this exit from the Peninsula. Except at the Gates, there was no southern route out of Anatolia, for the Taurus mountains were impassible. The alternative was to go east, through the more torturous Antitaurus, a route of 215 miles at heights of up to 5,000 feet^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Brice, Lee L.; Slootjes, Daniëlle (2014-11-21). Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography: Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-28372-5.
^ Mill, Hugh Robert (1908). The International Geography. D. Appleton.

[brice-1] Brice, Lee L.; Slootjes, Daniëlle (2014-11-21). Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography: Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-28372-5.

[2] Mill, Hugh Robert (1908). The International Geography. D. Appleton.

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