Saleph
Saleph is the classical name given to a river in Cilicia, a region of southern Anatolia in what is today Turkey. The name appears in ancient Greek and Latin texts under variations such as Saleph, Salph, or Salep. In modern scholarship, Saleph is generally identified with the river that is now called the Ceyhan, a major watercourse that runs across the Cilician Plain and empties into the Mediterranean. Although the identification with the Ceyhan is widely accepted, some scholars have proposed alternative identifications with other Cilician rivers.
In antiquity, the Saleph river lay within a culturally diverse and geopolitically active area that saw Hellenistic
Today, Saleph survives mainly in historical and geographers’ writings. The modern geographic reference remains the river