Site: Misis
Country: Turkey
Region: Cilicia, South-Central Turkey
Location : 36° 57’ N, 35° 38’ E
Cultures: Arab, Italian, Late Antique, Armenian, Byzantine, Mamluk
Description:

Misis [Arab: al-Mașșīșah; Grk: Mopsuestia, Mopsouestia, or Mamista; Arm: Msis, Mises, or Mamestia] is a fortified town of ancient, late antique, Arab, Byzantine, and Armenian construction.  It guarded the strategic highway from Tarsus to the various routes through the Anti-Taurus Mts. as well as a road to the port of Ayas.  Cargo vessels sailed directly from the Venetian and Genoese warehouses in Misis on the Ceyhan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Ref: Fortifications, pp. 198-200; Eerdmans, Robert W. Edwards, “Mopsuestia,” vol. 2, p. 168; Islam, E. Honigmann, “Missis,” vol. 3, pp. 521-524; Mamluks, pp. 49, 96, 112.

No plan was executed.

Alternate Site Names and Spellings: al-Mașșīșah, al-Masisa, Mopsuestia, Mopsouestia, or Mamista, Msis, Mises, Mamestia, Մսիս, Մամեստիա, Μοψυεστία, Μοψουεστία, Μαμίστα