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The city of Doliche, has a reputation as the homeland of the god Jupiter Dolichenus. This god was wordhipped from the 1st century AD. until the 3rd century in the Roman Empire.

Sources:

1. Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, University of California Pres 2006, pp. 155-156
2. T.A. Sinclair, Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume IV, Pindar Press, London 1990
3. Miguel John Versluys, Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World: Nemrud Dagi and Commagene under Antiochos I, Cambridge University Press 2017, pp.88-90

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