Asia Minor spiny mouse along the southern coast of Turkey. Its natural habitat is temperate forests, but this species is also lives close to human dwellings. "A. cilicicus" was previously listed as Critically Endangered, but is now considered Data Deficient because of taxonomic issues, as it may be the same species as the widespread and common northeast Cairo spiny mouse, "A. cahirinus". Asia Minor spiny mouse The Asia Minor spiny mouse ("Acomys cilicicus") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. "Acomys cilicicus" is a small terrestrial and social rodent, living in large groups. The head and the body reach a length of
Transjordan (region) and Eber-Nari. The Decapolis is named from its ten cities enumerated by Pliny the Elder. It should be noted, that what Pliny calls "Decapolis", Ptolemy calls "Cœle-Syria". Ptolemy does not use the term "Transjordan", but rather the periphrasis "across the Jordan". And he enumerates the cities; Cosmas, Libias, Callirhoe, Gazorus, Epicaeros—as being in this district—east of the Jordan, that Josephus et al. called Perea. Jerash was a prominent central community for the surrounding region during the Neolithic period and was also inhabited during the Bronze Age. Ancient Greek inscriptions from the city, and the literary works of Iamblichus and the