Alabanda
Ἀλάβανδα (in Ancient Greek) | |
Alternative name | Antiochia of the Chrysaorians |
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Location | Doğanyurt, Aydın Province, Turkey |
Region | Caria |
Coordinates | 37°35′30″N 27°59′08″E / 37.59167°N 27.98556°E |
Type | Settlement |
Alabanda (
.The city is located in the saddle between two heights. The area is noted for its dark marble and for gemstones that resembled garnets. Stephanus of Byzantium claims that there were two cities named Alabanda (Alabandeus) in Caria, but no other ancient source corroborates this.
History
According to legend, the city was founded by the
In the early
According to Cicero in Greece they worshiped a number of deified human beings, at Alabanda there was Alabandus.[4]
In 40 BC, the rebel
The ruins of Alabanda are 8 km west of Çine and consist of the remains of a theatre and a number of other buildings, but excavations have yielded very few inscriptions.
Ecclesiastical history
The names of some bishops of Alabanda are known because of their participation in church councils. Thus Theodoret was at the
Notable people
- Aridolis, tyrant of Alabanda during the Second Persian invasion of Greece
- Amyntas, tyrant of Alabanda and grandson of Amyntas I
- Leon of Alabanda (Λέων), a Greek rhetorician and writer[9]
- Apollonius the Effeminate, a Greek rhetorician
- Menecles of Alabanda (Μενεκλῆς), a Greek rhetorician, brother of Hierocles[10]
- Hierocles of Alabanda (Ἱεροκλῆς), a Greek rhetorician, brother of Menecles[10]
- Apollonius Molon, a Greek rhetorician
- Apaturius, a Greek scene-painter
- Menedemus of Alabanda (Μενέδημος), a Greek general who participated at the Battle of Raphia
Bishops
- Theodoret (mentioned in 451)
- Zeuxis (? – 518 deposed) (Monophysite)
- Julian (about 558 – about 568) (Jacobite)[11]
- Constantine (mentioned in 692)
- Constantine II (mentioned in 787)
- John (mentioned in 879)
- Saba (9th–10th century)
- Nicephorus (11th century)
- Anonymous (mentioned 11th century)
- William O'Carroll, (February 3, 1874 – October 13, 1880)[12][13][14]
- Rocco Leonasi (March 30, 1882 – March 14, 1883)
- Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè (August 9, 1883 – May 24)
- Nicola Lorusso (June 23, 1890 – June 8, 1891)
- John Brady (June 19, 1891 – January 6, 1910)
- Joseph Lang (February 26, 1915 – 1 November 1924)
- François Chaize,(May 12, 1925 – February 23, 1949)
- José María García Grain,(March 10, 1949 – May 27, 1959)
- Michel Ntuyahaga (June 11, 1959 – November 10, 1959
- James William Malone (January 2, 1960 – May 2, 1968)
Bibliography
- Turkey: The Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts, Blue Guides ISBN 978-0-393-30489-3, pp. 349–50.
- J. Ma, Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor, ISBN 978-0-19-815219-4, p. 175
External links
References
- ^ BEAN, G.E. "ALABANDA (Araphisar) Caria, Turkey". perseus.tufts.edu. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
Herodotos describes Alabanda in one case as in Caria, in the other as in Phrygia, but there is no doubt that the same city is meant.
- ^ Roisman & Worthington 2010, p. 136.
- ^ Briant 2002, p. 350.
- ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum. "In Greece they worship a number of deified human beings, Alabandus at Alabanda, Tennes at Tenedos, Leucothea, formerly Ino, and her son Palaemon throughout the whole of Greece."
- ^ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 909-910
- ^ Sophrone Pétridès, v. Alabanda, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. I, Paris 1909, col. 1285
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 828
- ^ Vincenzo Ruggiari, A historical Addendum to the episcopal Lists of Caria, in Revue des études byzantines, Année 1996, Volume 54, Numéro 54, pp. 221-234 (in particular p. 232)
- ^ Suda, lambda, 266
- ^ a b CICERO, DE ORATORE, 26
- ^ Michel Le Quien, Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Volume I, coll. 909–910.
- ^ Alabanda at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ /t0083.htm Alabanda at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 447.
Sources
- ISBN 978-1575061207.
- Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian, eds. (2010). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-1-44-435163-7.