Fortress Cilicia: Megastructures in the Near East
The Ancients
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The Stone of Donna Island, a Little Island in the Middle of the Roman Era.
In late antiquity, it was used for quarrying stone to build neighboring communities. Almost everything we've mapped at dona island is late roman and christianed as five churches on the island. There's a martyrium seemingly built within the ring wall of the fortress on the top. So that's its main phase of settlement. We're told with the saint life of saint barnabas, that he supposedly was sailing on his way to being martyred in cyprus,. He was caught in a storm on a ship, and they were there for like three days, and he prayed to the lord, and the storm lifted and he was able to continue.
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