malmistra

Updated: May 7, 2025

They overran in a rapid career the hills and sea-coast of Cilicia, from Cogni to the Syrian gates: the Norman standard was first planted on the walls of Tarsus and Malmistra; but the proud injustice of Baldwin at length provoked the patient and generous Italian; and they turned their consecrated swords against each other in a private and profane quarrel.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5