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| Issuer | Soloi (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | Θ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Soloi was one of the major Greek colonial cities on the Cilician coast, reputedly founded by settlers from Soli in Rhodes or possibly from Athens — ancient sources disagree. The city gave the Greek language the word soloikismos, "solecism," after locals developed a reputation among Athenians for speaking corrupted Greek. By the late Hellenistic period, Soloi fell under successive Seleucid and Armenian administrations before Tigranes the Great depopulated it around 83 BC, relocating its inhabitants to his new capital Tigranocerta. Pompey later refounded and repopulated the city, renaming it Pompeiopolis.