Editing Cilicia (section)

== Name ==
The name of Cilicia ({{lang|grc|Κιλικία}}) was derived from {{Transliteration|akk-x-neoassyr|Ḫilakku}} ({{lang|akk-x-neoassyr|{{cuneiform|11|𒆳𒄭𒋃𒆪}}}}<ref name="ORACCHilakku">{{unbulleted list citebundle|{{cite web |title=Hilakku [CILICIA] (GN) |url=http://oracc.org/tsae/cbd/qpn/x000048070.html |website=Textual Sources of the Assyrian Empire |series=[[Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus]] |publisher=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]}}|{{cite web |title=Hilakku [CILICIA] (GN) |url=http://oracc.org/atae/cbd/qpn-x-places/x000002390.html |website=Archival Texts of the Assyrian Empire |series=[[Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus]] |publisher=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]}}|{{cite web |title=Hilakku [CILICIA] (GN) |url=http://oracc.org//atae/cbd/qpn/x000046540.html |website=Archival Texts of the Assyrian Empire |series=[[Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus]] |publisher=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]}}|{{cite web |title=Hilakku [CILICIA] (GN) |url=http://oracc.org/saao/sig?%E2%98%A3%40saao%2Fsaa11%25akk-x-neoass%3A{KUR}hi-lak-ku%3DHilakku[Cilicia%2F%2FCilicia]GN%C2%B4GN%24Hilakku |department=Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration |website=State Archives of Assyria Online |series=[[Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus]] | publisher=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] }}|{{cite web |title=Hilakku [CILICIA] (GN) |url=http://oracc.org//saao/saa11/cbd/qpn-x-places/x000000460.html |department=Imperial Administrative Records, Part II: Provincial and Military Administration |website=State Archives of Assyria Online |series=[[Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus]] |publisher=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]}}}}</ref>), which was the name used by the Neo-Assyrian Empire to designate the western part of what would become Cilicia.{{sfn|Bryce|2009|p=165}}

The English spelling {{Transliteration|en|Cilicia}} is the same as the Latin, as it was transliterated directly from the Greek form Κιλικία. The palatalization of [[c]] occurring in Western Europe in later [[Vulgar Latin]] ({{circa | 500–700}}) accounts for its modern pronunciation in English.