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EarlierMithridates VI Orders the Asiatic Vespers88 BCE
Julius CaesarLaterVercingetorix Surrenders at Alesia52 BCE

Cilician pirates dominated the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompey in 67–66 BC. Because there were notorious pirate strongholds in Cilicia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), the term "Cilician" was long used to generically refer to any pirates in the Mediterranean.

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