Amyzon (city)

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Amyzon (

Ancient Greek: Ἀμυζών) in Caria (now Mazin, Aydın Province between the villages of Akmescit and Gaffarlar, in Aegean Turkey) was an ancient city 30 km south of modern Koçarlı.[1][2][3]

History

The city was in the Athenian alliance in 405 BC.[4]

Under the

Antiochus III confirmed the privileges of Amyzon.[5] The League had a form of reciprocal citizenship whereby a citizen of a member city was entitled to certain rights and privileges in any other member city.[6][7]

The city was dismissed by

.

Remains

A stretch of the city wall stands 6 m high (in fact, the terrace wall of the shrine); inside it are a few ruined and unidentifiable buildings, as well as a row of a dozen large vaulted underground chambers, apparently storerooms.[9] There are also Byzantine structures. Outside the city a series of ruined terraces mark the site of the Doric temple of Artemis,[10] which dates from the time of the Hecatomnids: an architrave block has been found bearing a dedication by Idrieus. Numerous other inscriptions abound.

Amyzon was excavated by Louis Robert.[11] Amyzon was mentioned in the Byzantine lists of bishops. No longer a residential diocese, it is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[12]

Bishopric

Amyzon is a

bishopric of Alinda.[13]
[14][15][16][17][18]

Ancient bishops

Bishop Borgna

Titular Roman Bishops

  • Jean Baptiste Gillis (3 Aug 1729 Appointed – 1 Dec 1736 Died) [20]
  • Charles Alexandre d'Arberg et de Valengin (31 Aug 1767 Appointed – 19 Dec 1785 Confirmed, Bishop of Ypres (Ieper))
  • Godefroid Philippe Joseph de La Porte, (29 Nov 1790 Appointed – 9 Aug 1796 Succeeded, Archbishop of Naxos)
  • Miguel Joaquín Matías Suárez, (20 Dec 1802 Appointed – 2 May 1831 Died)
  • Franz Großmann (Grossmann) (17 Jun 1844 Appointed – 5 May 1852 Died)
  • Ireneus Frederic Baraga (29 Jul 1853 Appointed – 9 Jan 1857 Appointed, Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan)
  • Józef Twarowski (3 Aug 1857 Appointed – 19 Jan 1868 Died)
  • Ildefonso Giovanni Battista Borgna, (24 May 1871 Appointed – 14 Dec 1886 Appointed, Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis)
  • Heinrich Feiten (20 Sep 1887 Appointed – 17 Feb 1892 Died)
  • Ignacio Ibáñez, (4 May 1893 Appointed – 14 Oct 1893 Died)
  • Pio Gaetano Secondo Stella (22 Dec 1893 Appointed – 21 Sep 1927 Died)
  • Gabriele Perlo, (22 Dec 1927 Appointed – 26 Sep 1948 Died)
  • Charles Dauvin, (9 Dec 1948 Appointed – 28 Dec 1948 Died)
  • Baltasar Álvarez Restrepo † (7 May 1949 Appointed – 18 Dec 1952 Appointed, Bishop of Pereira)
  • Luigi Cicuttini (6 Apr 1953 Appointed – 30 Nov 1956 Appointed, Bishop of Città di Castello) [21]
  • Antonin Fishta, (17 Dec 1956 Appointed – 12 Jan 1980 Died) [22]

Notes

  1. .
  2. , p 88–89.
  3. ^ Louis und Jeanne Robert: Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie. Tome 1. Exploration, histoire, monnaies et inscriptions. de Boccard, Paris 1983.
  4. .
  5. ^ J. Ma, Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor, :175.
  6. ^ "Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer, s.v. "Chrysaorium"". p. 109. Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  7. ^ María Marta González González, Cartas de la cancillería helenística (II) en la revista Memorias de historia antigua, ISSN 0210-2943, Nº 11-12, 1990–1991, págs. 127-146 (p.129)
  8. ^ Strabo, 658.
  9. ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites: s.v. "Amyzon".
  10. Bagadates I
    .
  11. ^ Louis Robert, with Jeanne Robert, Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie I, (Paris: De Boccard) 1983.
  12. ), p. 831
  13. ^ Rosemary Morris, Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
  14. ^ Henry Mourice, A Defence of Diocesan Episcopacy, in answer to a book of Mr D. Clarkson ... entituled"Primitive Episcopacy.".(1691)
  15. ^ David Clarkson, Primitive Episcopacy, evincing from Scripture and ancient records, that a bishop in the Apostles times, and for the space of the first three centuries of the Gospel-Church, was no more than a pastor to one single church or congregation, etc. [With a prefatory epistle by Isaac Chauncy].(Nath. Ponder, 1688)
  16. ^ Bingham, J.; Bingham, R. (1834). Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works. To which are now added, several sermons. p. 334. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  17. ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works. To which are now added, several sermons (Joseph Bingham, 1834) p 334
  18. ^ Robert Knaplock, The Works, Volume 1 (Robert Knaplock, 1726)p834
  19. ^ Authoritative Christianity. The third world council ... which was held A.D. 431.
  20. ^ Amyzona at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  21. ^ Amyzon at GCatholc.org.
  22. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 188, Number 15,318

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