European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              N and ony by Sam staff writer town 01 harlots because of Cleopatra r Yot vre in pretty soon Corn puny when you make a to the ancient turkish City of Home of the apostle Paul Ami legendary Bur Jal place of ii irn net youve Birli preceded by Kins Cyrus of Alexander Ilie the Llu Man the great Cicero of Imperial Julius Antony and Augustus Caesar and Barna Bas of the americans from nearby in Ciurlik air base arc frequent visitors to and the tourist office on the Southwest Edge of town near Pauls Gate also known us the harlots possibly in reference o Cleopatra visit has pre pared a mimeographed Booklet on the history of giving suggestions for a earliest records indicate Tarsus be Gan As a hot tote port despite the fact that the Mediterranean is now some 19 Miles centuries of lit from the cygnus River and garbage from the City have completely filled in the Lagoon that once opened to the As the Lagoon slowly tilled civilizations grew and rulers came and went and City after City Rose on the same the Early Bronze age truces were obliterated by the Pauls Mother is supplied to have drawn water from this who were in turn erased by the Assur legend has it that King Sardana Ului of Assyria had this Cut on the base of his Tomb 14 Miles outside Tarsus the son of Anaky Ndu built Anc Hiale site of the lomb and Tarsus in one and for everything else int Worth the snap of the it was Alexander the great who ended the persian Rule in Tarsus in 344 when he entered the Gules and gave the City its lie almost died in Tarsus after buttling in the Chilly Waters of the Pompey established roman Tarsus in 64 when he used the City As a base for wiping out local pirates Haras sing roman Cicero to vurned the province of Cilicia in 5150 and the great Caesar stopped to in 47 but the most famous visitors of Alt undoubtedly were Antony and Plutarch described their rendezvous in 41 she came sailing up the River Cyd Nus in a Barge with gilded Stern and 1964 the stars and stripes outspread sails of while oars of Silver beat time to the music of the flutes and fifes and she herself Lay under a canopy of dressed As Venus in a and Beail Lill you ilk like painted stand on each mile in the Market place was ii Ile and Antony Ai last was led is Piini alone on the Ninh marking the lovers visit were and dealers sometimes turn one up for Sulc to despite the fact that there is Little doubt that Paul Saul was born in Tarsus and that the Well outside his Home is still Little is known about the apostles in acts Paul tells a roman officer in the Jeru Salem Temple i am a jew from in citizen of no insignificant although Paul spent Little time in tar sus following his the City did become Center of producing Many religious Many of the churches in the City were built in byzantine and the emperor jus Tinian ordered the rerouting of uie Cyd Nus River about rather than through the City to halt the series of floods wrecking the Justinian also ordered three Bridges built Over the All three of which lire still in various regimes ruled Tarsus after my Aruba and byzantine armies rolled Back and joined later by the seljuk turks and the knights of first crusade in mus and finally the Olio Man turks held Sway until in the City became a part of modern visitors to Tarsus equipped with the tourist office Booklet find their Way about with u minimum of bother if they speak Basic those who do not Are advised to hire a usually College students speaking High Points on a tour of Tarsus include a visit to the makam reportedly built Over the Tomb of the Prophet a Small chamber contains u Stone Marker to and until recent times a stairway led be Neath the mosque to the burial remulus of the roman a Structure Only vaguely recognizable great dating from the 16th Century and the burial place of Caliph forty spoons a not very fascinating collection of Tea houses und radio repair shops near the great but interesting or you cant skip a place with a name like Mammoth ruins on the Edge of town thought to have a roman a prison ers an assyrian Tomb and in Sedule control Point for the cygnus River since its re Chan in the Rainy season a wide and irregular Falls tumbles Cooling the air and turning the sky into a series of in dry roman tombs built about the Edge of the fulls become visible und gleam Whitely in the this is an excellent place to wind up a tour of sipping a Cool or hot drink As the Cuson and contemplating the centuries that have flawed about the Page 13