Ayas

Ayas (Armenian: Այաս, Ancient Greek: Αιγαιαι, Aegeae, French: Layas, Italian: La Giazza, Laiazzo) is a small town in Yumurtalık district, Adana Province, Turkey, located east of the mouth of the Ceyhan River. It was the ancient Aegea and medieval Ajazzo or Lajazzo. It passed between the Mamluks and the Armenians several times in the 13th and 14th centuries, and was definitively taken by the Mamluks in 1347. Under the Ottomans, it was a kaza in the Eyalet of Adana. The Cilician port city of Aegea or Aegeae is mentioned in Pausanias, v.21.11. On its coinage, it is called Aigai like the archaic capital of Macedon. It was located on the Gulf of Issus (modern Gulf of İskenderun). The city was mentioned in Tacitus' Annals XIII:8: War between...