Camisa or Kamisa ( grc, τὰ Κάμισα), also known as Comassa and possibly as Eumeis, was a town of

Lesser Armenia Lesser Armenia ( hy, Փոքր Հայք, ''Pokr Hayk''; la, Armenia Minor, Greek: Mikre Armenia, Μικρή Αρμενία), also known as Armenia Minor and Armenia Inferior, comprised the Armenian–populated regions primarily to the west and n ...

, inhabited during

Hellenistic In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

, and

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

times. It loaned its name to the surrounding district of

Camisene Camisene or Kamisene ( grc, Καμισηνή), also called Comisene, was a historical region of Anatolia. Strabo mentions Culupene or Calupene and Camisene as bordering on the Lesser Armenia, and he includes them within his reckoning of Pontus. Ro ...

or Comisene; it was destroyed in Strabo's time. Salt was mined here in antiquity. Its site is located in

Sivas Province Sivas Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey. It is largely located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolia region of Turkey; it is the second largest province in Turkey by territory. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri ...

Asiatic Turkey.

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