Castabala (city)

The city was first mentioned in literature when Alexander the Great made a stage before the Battle of Issos.

[2] In the first century BC, after the Cilician pirates were defeated, it became the capital of Tarcondimotus, a ruler of a small client kingdom.

[4] He also added that "some tell us over and over the same story of Orestes and Tauropolus, asserting that she was called Perasian because she was brought from the other side.

"[4] The city was important enough in the Roman province of Cilicia Secunda to become a suffragan of its capital Anazarbus's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but would fade.

[5] The Diocese of Castabala is a titular bishopric of the Catholic Church[6] reflecting its active status in Late Antiquity.