[SunkenCiv]

Sirkeli mound is located about due east of Adana.

[Verginius Rufus]

According to Der Kleine Pauly, Adana was a city in Cilicia campestris, on the left shore of the Saros and on the road to Issos, halfway between Tarsus and Mopsuestia, in a fertile region. At the time of the Syrian wars it was called Antiocheia ad Sarum. Pompey settled Cilician pirates there. Important marketplace.

Tarsus was no mean city, according to its most famous native. Mopsuestia means the "hearth of Mopsus." Mopsus was a minor figure in Greek stories about events in the Bronze Age, but has been confirmed to have really existed, I believe from a contemporary inscription.