Apamea Myrlea
Location | Turkey |
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Region | Bursa Province |
Coordinates | 40°22′35″N 28°53′00″E / 40.37639°N 28.88333°E |
Apamea Myrlea (
Name
To distinguish this city from the many others called Apamea,[1][2][3] the name Apamea Myrlea used here adds to the name (Apamea) it was given when rebuilt as an important city the name (Myrlea) it previously bore as a smaller town.[4] It was also referred to as Apamea Myrlēon (Apamea of Myrlea).[5]
History
The town was founded as a
The place was on the west coast of the
The Romans made Apamea a colonia, apparently in the time of Augustus, or perhaps Julius Caesar, in view of the adjective "Iulia" that appear on its coins under Roman rule.[2] Its earlier coins were stamped Ἀπαμέων Μυρλεάνων, but in Roman times they bore the label C.I.C.A. (= Colonia Iulia Concordia Apamea).[7]
When Pliny the Younger was governor of Bithynia, he consulted Trajan about a claim by the colonia not to have its accounts of receipts and expenditures examined by the Roman governor.[2]
A passage of Ulpian shows use of the adjectival form of the name was Apamenus: "Apamena: est in Bithynia colonia Apamena.[2]
Ecclesiastical history
This Apamea in the Late
Titular see
No longer a residential bishopric, Apamea in Bithynia is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see,[10] of the intermediary Archiepiscopal rank.
Since the Latin Catholic archdiocese was thus nominally restored (in ?1633), it has had the following archiepiscopal incumbents, but is vacant since decades :
- Nicola Maria Tedeschi, Benedictines (O.S.B.) (1722.03.02 – death 1741.09.29), eemritate as former Bishop of Lipari (Italy) (1710.03.10 – 1722.02.28)
- Stefano Evodio Assemani (1736 – death 1782.11.24), no actual office recorded
- Protopriest of Sacred College of Cardinals(1830.01.24 – 1832.11.17)
- David Mathew (1946.02.20 – death 1975.12.12), first as Westminster(England) (1938.12.03 – 1946.02.20)
See also
References
- ^ a b Hogarth, David George (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). p. 159.
- ^ a b c d e "Apameia" in William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
- Apamea
- ^ Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, entry "Ăpămēa"
- ^ William Smith, A Classical Dictionary, p. 83
- ^ William Smith, A Classical Dictionary, p. 581
- ^ Asia Minor Coins – ancient coins of Apamea
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 655–658
- ^ Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, Vol. 2, p. 235
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 834
Sources and external links
Further reading
- ISBN 0-691-03169-X), p. 52.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Apameia