Cilician pirates
Generic term used for all pirates of the Mediterranean Sea in the 2nd and 1st century BC / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.