Mallus (Cilicia)

In ancient times, the city was situated at the mouth of the Pyramus (which has changed course since), on a hill opposite Magarsa (or Magarsus) which served as its port.

Amphilochus and Mopsus were said to have left that conflict and founded Mallus[3] and some other oracles and towns before either returning to Argos or killing one another.

Visitors to the oracle, which continued as late as Plutarch, slept overnight in the temple and their dreams were considered to be the gods' answer to their questions.

[1][5] Alexander also exempted the town from paying taxes, because it was a colony of the Argives, and he himself claimed to have sprung from Argos, being one of the descendants of Heracles.

[8] It allied itself with Tarsus against Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who according to the Apocrypha, had presented both cities to his concubine Antiochis.

[10] In the second century B.C., it was the hometown of the notable philosopher and grammarian Crates of Mallus, credited with having built the first known globe; however, he left the city at a young age and his scholarly career mainly took place elsewhere.

The city is mentioned by numerous ancient authors, and in the Middle Ages by Arabian, Armenian, and Italian writers.