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Mopsuestia is an ancient city in Cilicia Campestris on the Pyramus River located approximately 20km east of ancient Antiochia in Cilicia . From the city’s harbour the river is navigable to the Mediterranean Sea, a distance of over 40 km .The founding of this city is attributed in legend to the soothsayer Mopsus, who lived before the Trojan war, although it is scarcely mentioned before the Christian era. Pliny the Elder calls it the free city of Mopsos, but the ordinary name is Mopsuestia, as found in Stephanus of Byzantium and all the Christian geographers and chroniclers. Under the Seleucid Empire, the city took the name of Seleucia on the Pyramus, but gave it up at the time of the Roman conquest; under Hadrian it was called Hadriana, under Decius Decia, etc., as we know from the inscriptions and the coins of the city. Constantius II built there a magnificent bridge over the Pyramus afterwards restored by Justinian and has been restored again recently.