Alinda
Ἄλινδα | |
Location | Near Karpuzlu, Aydın Province, Turkey |
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Region | Caria |
Coordinates | 37°33′30″N 27°49′25″E / 37.55833°N 27.82361°E |
Type | Settlement |
Alinda (
Location and remains
It is situated near Demircideresi, on a hilltop which commands the modern-day town of Karpuzlu, Aydın Province, in western Turkey, and overlooks a fertile plain.
The non-restored but very well preserved ruins are much visited, especially within the circuit of organized tours (locally called "safaris") with departure from either the international tourism center of Bodrum or from Milas and reaching Karpuzlu through a mountain road from the south.
In 2018, four kilometers of the ancient stone road, which connects the ancient cities of Alinda and
History
Alinda has perhaps been an important city since the
It was this fortress which was held by the exiled Carian Queen Ada. She greeted Alexander the Great here in 334 BC. When Alexander captured Caria, he granted Ada to be the ruler of the whole region.[6]
The city was apparently renamed "Alexandria by the Latmos" (
Alinda remained an important commercial city, minting its own coins from the third century BC to the 3rd century AD.[7] Stephanus records that the city had a temple of Apollo containing a statue of Aphrodite by Praxiteles.
Alinda has a
Ecclesiastical history
Alinda appears on
, but was to fade.Residential Bishops
(incomplete)
- Promachios fl.451[9]
- John fl.451[10]
- Theodoretus fl.536[11]
Titular Bishopric
It was nominally restored as a Latin
- Alexandre-Louis-Victor-Aimé Le Roy, Titular Archbishop of Caria (see)(1921.05.13 – 1938.04.21)
- Edward Komar (1921.06.16 – 1943.09.29)
- Juan Hervás y Benet (1944.01.13 – 1947.12.22)
- Eris Norman Michael O’Brien (1948.02.05 – 1951.01.11) as Endeh (Indonesia) (1961.01.03 – 1968.12.19), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Bavagaliana(1968.12.19 – 1976.05.15)
- Charles Alexander Grant (1961.02.06 – 1967.03.14)
- Robert Lebel (1974.03.11 – 1976.03.26)
- Juan Hervás y Benet (1976.09.30 – 1982.06.06)
References
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ἀλεξάνδρειαι.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Ancient road destroyed to make way for villagers’ olive groves in Aydın
- ^ Athenian Tribute Lists
- ^ Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, §1.23.8
- ^ Cobb Institute of Archaeology. "Museum object: Coin". Mississippi State University. Archived from the original on 2006-09-01.
- ^ Professor Fikret Yegül. "Roman Building Technology and Architecture: Water supply systems: Cisterns, reservoirs, aqueducts". University of California. Archived from the original on 2005-11-20.
- ^ Fergus Millar, A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450) (University of California Press, 2006) p.100.
- ^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 1 Jan. 2005) p.451
- ^ Biographical Index of the Middle Ages / Biographischer Index des Mittelalters / Index Biographique du Moyen-Âge (Walter de Gruyter,2008) p.1068.
See also
Sources and external links
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. "Perseus Digital Library: Alinda". Princeton University.
- George E. Bean (1971). Turkey beyond the Maeander. Frederick A. Praeger, London. ISBN 0-87471-038-3.
- J. Garstang, The Hittite Empire (University Press, Edinburgh, 1930), p. 179.