Topic summary
Mazaca
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Caesarea (Cappadocia).
Achaemenid and Hellenistic times
Mazaca, like the rest of the region, became a part of Alexander the Great's empire in 333 BC. In the turbulent decades that followed his death, the city fell under Antigonus Monophthalmus. Mazaca was subsequently passed to the Seleucid Empire after the Battle of Ipsus.