Colybrassus

Coordinates: 36°43′54″N 31°58′31″E / 36.731600°N 31.975400°E / 36.731600; 31.975400
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36°43′54″N 31°58′31″E / 36.731600°N 31.975400°E / 36.731600; 31.975400 Colybrassus or Kolybrassos (

Pamphylia Prima, identified as such by Ptolemy.[1][2]

Colybrassus: Remains of a temple

Remains

Greek inscription at Colybrassus

Inscriptions found on the site show that it was located at present-day Ayasofya on the Susuz Dağ, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Alanya, at 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above sea level.[2][3][4]

The remains include the walls of a temple of Hercules that rise to 25 feet and the 20-foot walls of another unidentified temple,[5] and a small theatre or odeion.[6] Part of the city wall is preserved, with steps leading to the up to its gate, and in what was the necropolis there are several sarcophagi and a tomb cut in the rock.[2]

History

Cited by the geographer

bishopric and the patron saint of the city took the name of Άγια Σοφία (Hagia Sophia). After the collapse of the Byzantine power in Anatolia in 1199, the city became part of the possessions of the Armenian prince Kervard with the name of "Surp Sope". The name was derived directly from the Armenian church dedicated to St. Sophia. After that date the city disappears from history.[citation needed
]

Bishopric

The

Trullan Council of 692.[7][8][9]

No longer a residential bishopric, Colybrassus is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[10]

References

  1. ISBN 9783110080155
    . Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b c G.E. Bean, "Kolybrassos (Ayasofya) Turkey" in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton University Press 1976)
  3. ISBN 9789004122598
    Accessed: 18 January 2015
  4. ^ Keith Hopwood, "Coastal Cities of Western Rough Cilicia" in Anatolia Antiqua, Year 1991, Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 308
  5. ISBN 9783110018851
    ), p. 2143
  6. ISBN 9783205042792
    ), p. 130
  7. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 1011-1012
  8. ^ Raymond Janin, v. Colybrassos, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Parigi 1956, col. 351
  9. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 450
  10. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 873

External links

Bibliography

  • TIB 8: Hansgerd Hellenkemper and Friedrich Hild, "Lykien und Pamphylien", 2004,
    ISBN 3-7001-3280-8
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