This is alist of known governors of the Roman province ofCilicia. Althoughimperium along the southern coast of Asia Minor had been assigned to various propraetors beginning in 104 BC, it was only annexed to theRoman Republic as a province in 64 BC by Pompey as a consequence of his victory in theThird Mithridatic War. Cyprus was included in this province from 58 BC until 27 BC. Further subtractions and additions to its territory were made until AD 72, after which its boundaries were unchanged untilDiocletian divided the province into three parts:Cilicia Prima, under aconsularis;Cilicia Secunda, under apraeses; andIsauria, also under a praeses. Although passing intoByzantine control following the division of the Empire into Western and Eastern parts, these later provinces were lost in the seventh century as a result of theMuslim conquest of the Levant.
The list of governors from 96 BC to 31 BC is based onThomas Robert Shannon Broughton,The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, vol. II andDavid Magie,Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century After Christ, pp. 1594–1596.
The list of governors from 31 BC to the mid-third century is based on Bernard Rémy,Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.) (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), pp. 341–357.
