Castabala (city)

Coordinates: 37°10′39″N 36°11′15″E / 37.17743°N 36.18744°E / 37.17743; 36.18744
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Acropolis of the city

Castabala (Greek: Καστάβαλα), also known as Hieropolis and Hierapolis (Greek: Ίεράπολις) was a city in Cilicia (modern southern Turkey), near the Ceyhan River (ancient Pyramus).

The Turkish town of Kırmıtlı, in the Osmaniye district of Osmaniye Province, is about 3 miles wsw of the ancient city.

The ruins were first identified from inscriptions in March 1890 by the British explorer

J. Theodore Bent.[1]

Early history

Castabala was one of the cities of the

Battle of Issos.[2]

During the

Roman period it was called Hieropolis, known as either Hieropolis on the Pyramos or as Hieropolis Castabala.[2] In the first century BC, after the Cilician pirates were defeated, it became the capital of Tarcondimotus a ruler of a small client kingdom.[3] Later, the city became a part of Cappadocia Province in the Roman Empire
.

At the city there was the sanctuary of Artemis Perasia (Περασίας Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερόν).[2][4] According to Strabo, the priestesses were walking with naked feet over hot embers without pain.[4] He also added that "some tell us over and over the same story of Orestes and Tauropolus, asserting that she was called Perasian because she was brought from the other side."[4]

Roman Period

The city was important enough in the

suffragan of its capital Anazarbus's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but would fade.[5]

Titular see

Main article: Diocese of Castabala

The

Late Antiquity
.

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ ‘Recent Discoveries in Eastern Cilicia’. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1890, Vol. 11, 231-5.
  2. ^ a b c The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, HIEROPOLIS CASTABALA Cilicia Campestris, Turkey.
  3. ^ Tobin, Jenner (2001). "The Tarcondimotid Dynasty in Smooth Cilicia". Actes de la Table Ronde d'Istanbul, 2-5 novembre 1999: 381–387.
  4. ^ a b c Strabo, Geography, 12.2.7
  5. ISBN 978-0-8028-9017-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  6. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 860

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