Doron, or Dorio, as it is said to be written in some manuscripts, is a city mentioned only by Pliny and located in Cilicia Tracheia,[1] Some scholars have equted the city to Darieium or Dorieium in Phrygia mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium. Gaius or Caius Plinius Secundus, ( AD 23 – August 25, AD 79 better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient Author Geography Cilicia extended along the Aegean coast east from Pamphylia, to Mount Amanus ( Gavurdağı Mount) which separated it from Syria Darieium ( Greek:) was an ancient city of Asia Minor. Stephanus of Byzantium mentions it as a city of Phrygia. Dorieium ( Greek:) was an ancient city of Asia Minor. Stephanus of Byzantium mentions it as a city of Phrygia. In antiquity Phrygia (Φρυγία was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl [2]
"Doron" is also the hebrew name for present, or gift.
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856). The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, first published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar Sir William Smith (1813 &ndash 1893 English Lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents
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