Arsuz
Arsuz | |
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District and municipality | |
Coordinates: 36°24′46″N 35°53′12″E / 36.41278°N 35.88667°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Hatay |
Government | |
• Mayor | Asaf Güven (CHP) |
Area | 462 km2 (178 sq mi) |
Elevation | 25 m (82 ft) |
Population (2022)[1] | 101,233 |
• Density | 220/km2 (570/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Area code | 0326 |
Website | www |
Arsuz (
Geography
The town center of Arsuz is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) South of İskenderun and 118 kilometres (73 mi) from Antakya (administrative center of Hatay Province). While the town center is relatively small near the end of a coastal road leading south from İskenderun, the entire coastal region between İskenderun and the town center is often simply referred as Arsuz. This area is predominantly small rural farms (generally located inland towards the mountains) and small groups of summer homes (generally located near the coastline).
History
Arsuz had many names throughout history, including: Rhosus, Rhossos, Rhossus, Rhopolis, Port Panel/Bonnel, Kabev and Arsous. The earliest documents about it date from the Seleucid Empire, of whose Antioch became the capital.
Arsuz was then an important seaport on the
Some Christians in Rhosus accepted as truth the Docetic Gospel of Peter and for them in around AD 200 Serapion of Antioch composed a treatise condemning the book.[15] Theodoret[16] relates the history of the hermit Theodosius of Antioch, founder of a monastery in the mountain near Rhosus, who was forced by the inroads of barbarians to retire to Antioch, where he died and was succeeded by his disciple Romanus, a native of Rhosus; these two religious are honoured by the Greek Orthodox Church on 5 and 9 February.[14]
In 638 the city was incorporated into the
Between 1918 and 1938 the town was under
Composition
There are 38
- Akçalı
- Arpaçiftlik
- Arpaderesi
- Arpagedik
- Aşağı Kepirce
- Avcılarsuyu
- Beyköyü
- Çetillik
- Derekuyu
- Gökmeydan
- Gözcüler
- Gülcihan
- Hacıahmetli
- Harlısu
- Haymaseki
- Helvalı
- Hüyük
- Işıklı
- Kale
- Karaağaç Cumhuriyet
- Karaağaç Konarlı
- Karaağaç Övündük
- Karaağaç Şarkkonak
- Karagöz
- Karahüseyinli
- Kışla
- Konacık
- Kozaklı
- Kurtbağı
- Madenli
- Nardüzü
- Nergizlik
- Pirinçlik
- Tatarlı
- Tülek
- Üçgüllük
- Uluçınar
- Yukarıkepirce
Demographics
German traveler Martin Hartmann listed 31 settlements in the Ottoman nahiyah of Arsuz, 10 being Alawite (381 houses), 8 being Turkish (205 houses), and 12 without any information. The town of Arsuz (70 houses) was almost wholly Greek Christian with the exception of three Arab and one Turkish families.[21]
Ecclesiastical history
Rhosus was a diocese in the sway of the
Six residential Suffragan bishops of Rhosus are known:[25]
- Antipatros, at the Council of Antiochin 363
- Porphyrius, mentioned in a letter by Saint John Chrysostom circa 404
- Julian, at the Council of Chalcedon, 451
- a little later a bishop (name unknown), who separated from his Metropolitan to approve of the reconciliation effected between John of Antioch and Saint Cyril of Alexandria
- Antoninus, at a council of Mopsuestia on the Three-Chapter Controversy in 550;
- Theodore, about 600, mentioned by monk-hagiographer John Moschus.
Titular see
No later than the 15th century the diocese was nominally restored as Latin
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[26]
- Egidio von Byderborch, Diocese of Strasbourg(France) (1428.11.29 – ?)
- Jean de Montmartin, Friars Minor(O.F.M.) (1434.09.01 – death 1436?), no actual prelature
- Heinrich Hopfgarten (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24) as Archdiocese of Mainz (Germany) (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24); later Bishop of Risano(1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24)
- Daniel [no last name?!], Augustinian Order(O.E.S.A.) (1470.12.10 – death 1487?), no actual prelature
- Raphael de Mercatellis, appointed titular bishop of Rhosus in 1487, died 1507.[27]
- Adrien Aernoult, O. Carm. (1517.09.18 – 1536.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Cambrai(France) (1517.09.18 – 1536.11)
- Miguel de Sanguesa, (1537.04.29 – death 1548)
- Johann Michael Wenzel von Spaur (1722.04.20 – death 1743.03.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Trento(Italy) (1722.04.20 – 1743.03.28)
- Mihály Mánuel Olsavszky, Mukacheve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine) ([1743.03.12] 1743.09.06 – 1767.11.05)
- Claude-François-Ignace Franchet de Rans (1756.04.05 – death 1810.02.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Besançon (France) (1756.04.05 – 1810.02.21)
- János Bradács, O.S.B.M. (1768.01.27 – 1771.09.19) as last Vicar Apostolic of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians(Ukraine) (1768.01.27 – 1771.09.19), next promoted as first Bishop of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians (1771.09.19 – death 1772.07.04)
- Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of La Habana (Cuba) (1836.02.24 – 1845.11.10)
- Bernard Angus MacEachern (1819.01.12 – 1829.08.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Québec (Canada) (1819.01.12 – 1829.08.11), later first Bishop of Charlottetown(Canada) (1829.08.11 – death 1835.04.23)
- S. Maria in Via(1853.06.27 – 1882.12.22)
- Antonio Burbano, O.E.S.A. (1837.05.19 – death 1839?) as Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán (Colombia) (1837.05.19 – 1839?)
- Joannes Bocheński (1850.05.20 – death 1857.01.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians(Byzantine Rite Metropolitanate, Ukraine) (1850.05.20 – 1857.01.25)
- Pietro Saulini (1876.06.26 – death 1878.02.28) as Bishop of Alatri (Italy) (1878.02.28 – 1887)
- Emmanuel-Marie-Ange de Briey (1880.02.27 – 1884.08.30) as Coadjutor Bishop of Meaux(France) ([1880.02.12] 1880.02.27 – 1884.08.30), next succeeded as Bishop of Meaux (1884.08.30 – death 1909.12.11)
- S. Clemente(1899.06.22 – 1908.04.25)
- Félix-Jules-Xavier Jourdan de la Passardière, Archdiocese of Carthage (1887 – 1892), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Rouen(France) (1892 – retired 1896) and emeritate
- Trudo Johannes Jans, O.F.M. (1923.12.13 – 1929.09.09) as last Yichang宜昌 (China) (1924.12.03 – death 1929.09.09)
- S. Onofrio(1958.12.18 – death 1972.05.27), President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (1960 – 1963)
- Heinrich Ritter, Territorial Prelature of Jurua (Brazil) (1935.09.06 – 1942.07.19)
- Marc Lacroix, Churchill–Hudson Bay (Canada) (1968.01.29 – 1968.10.25), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Chullu(1968.10.25 – 1970.11.24).
References
- ^ TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §R548.17
- ^ Malalas, Chronography, Book 8.198
- ^ a b Malalas, Chronography, Book 8.201
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, §13.50
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, § 13.68
- ^ XIV, 5; XVI, 2.
- ^ V, 14.
- ^ V, xviii, 2.
- ^ Synecdemus 705, 7.
- ^ Descriptio orbis romani, 827.
- ^ a b Pétridès, Sophron (1912). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- ^ Eusebius, "Histor. eccles.", VI, xii, 2.
- ^ Philoth. Histor., X, XI.
- ^ Town page (in Turkish) Archived October 8, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Law No. 6360". Official Gazette (in Turkish). 6 December 2012.
- ^ "İl İdaresi ve Mülki Bölümler Şube Müdürlüğü İstatistikleri - İl ve İlçe Kuruluş Tarihleri" (PDF) (in Turkish). p. 39. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Hartmann, Martin (1894). Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket. Berlin: W. Pormetter. p. 103-104. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
in arsūz wohnen nur drei arabisch-muslimische und eine türkische Familie; alle übrigen sind Rūm.
- ^ Vailhé in "Échos d'Orient", X, 145.
- ^ Gustav Parthey, Hieroclis synecd. et notit. gr. episcopat., not. Ia, 827.
- ^ Vailhé, ibid. 93 seq.
- Le Quien, Oriens christianus, II, 905.
- ^ "Titular See of Rhosus, Turkey".
- S2CID 195012366. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
Sources and external links
- GCatholic - (former and) titular see
- Pétridès, Sophron (1912). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- Bibliography
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, p. 436
- Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris, 1740, Tomo II, coll. 905-908
- Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1, p. 423 (note 4 on 'Rosensis'); vol. 2, pp. 224–225; vol. 3, p. 287; vol. 5, p. 334; vol. 6, p. 357