Cremna
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Ancient city in Pisidia, Asia Minor
For the genus of butterly, see Napaea (butterfly).
Cremna or Kremna (
Cestrus River (today Aksu), with limited access and good defensive features.[1]
It was first taken by
Sagalassus.[3]
Its water supply posed particular problems and the aqueduct had to include complex and novel solutions. [4]
The donatio given by the emperor
Pamphylia Secunda. The name of only one of its bishops is known: Theodorus, present at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.[7][8] No longer a residential bishopric, Cremna is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[9]
At some time in the high Middle Ages, the ancient site of the town was abandoned, the population transferring itself to the present village of Çamlık.
The ancient site was identified in 1874 and excavations began in 1970.
References
- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Cremna", London, (1854)
- Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister (editors); The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, "Kremna", Princeton, (1976)
- Mitchell, Stephen, with Sarah Cormack, Robin Fursdon, Eddie Owens and Jean Öztürk, Cremna in Pisidia. An Ancient City in Peace and in War (Duckworth Press, London, 1995)
Notes
- ^ Princeton Encyclopedia, "Kremna".
- Geographia, xii. 7.
- Geographia, v. 5.
- ^ Owens, E. J. “The Kremna Aqueduct and Water Supply in Roman Cities.” Greece & Rome, vol. 38, no. 1, 1991, pp. 41–58. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/643107.
- ^ Zosimus, Historia Nova, i. 69.
- ISBN 978-1-78297295-2)
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 1025-1026
- ^ Raymond Janin, v. Cremna, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris 1956, col. 1019
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 876
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37°30′00.50″N 30°41′27.96″E / 37.5001389°N 30.6911000°E / 37.5001389; 30.6911000
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