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CAPPADOCIA
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Cyrrhus
Edessa
Aphrodisias
Ephesus
Sardis
Pergamum
Scepsis
Chalcedon
Nicaea (Iznik)
Prusa (Bursa)
Constantinople
(Istanbul)
Amman
Mushattā
Khirbat
al-Maar
Bosra
Nazareth
Raqqa
Palmyra
Jerash
Petra
Damascus
Homs
Alexandretta
Seleuceia
Mabbug
Mopsuestia
Antioch
Alexandria
Oxyrhynchus
Caesarea
Sepphoris
Gaza
Jerusalem
Yavneh
Harrān
Fustāt-Cairo
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