Ariarathia

[3] The town belonged to the so-called Armenian Hexapolis and remained under Byzantine control in the seventh century.

[4] In lack of archaeological findings, it seems that the city vanished during the eighth or ninth century when the Muslim onslaught rendered the area between Caeserea and Melitene a no man's land.

[7] A No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

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