Isauria ( or ; ), in ancient geography, is a rugged isolated district in the interior of South
Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering what is now the district of
Bozkır and its surroundings in the
Konya Province of
Turkey, or the core of the
Taurus Mountains. In its coastal extension it bordered on
Cilicia. It derives its name from the contentious Isaurian tribe (which was probably
Luwian) and twin settlements
Isaura Palaea (Ίσαυρα Παλαιά, Latin:
Isaura Vetus, "Old Isaura") and
Isaura Nea (Ίσαυρα Νέα, Latin:
Isaura Nova, "New Isaura"). Isaurian marauders were fiercely independent mountain people who created havoc in neighboring districts under Macedonian and Roman occupations.