Ermenek

Ermenek
Municipality
Ermenek, April 2012
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Coordinates: 36°38′20″N 32°53′33″E / 36.63889°N 32.89250°E / 36.63889; 32.89250
Country	Turkey
Province	Karaman
District	Ermenek
Government
• Mayor	Mustafa Bozcu (CHP)
Elevation	1,196 m (3,924 ft)
Population  (2022)[1]	11,629
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code	70400
Area code	0338
Website	www.ermenek.bel.tr

Ermenek is a town in

The town was historically known as Germanicopolis (Greek: Γερμανικόπολις), Germanig and possibly Clibanus;^[3] which later mutated to Ermenek.

History

Germanicopolis was an ancient town in the Roman province of Isauria.^[4] The city took its name from Germanicus, grandson of first Emperor Octavian Augustus, as several others.

The

It was later incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, becoming part of the Karaman Eyalet, where it was the second most important town after Karaman itself.

Ecclesiastical history

No later than the 5th century, Germanicopolis became a

Four of its bishops are known during the Byzantine government :

• Tyrannus, participant at the Council of Chalcedon in 451
• Bisulas in the sixth century^[5]
• Eustathius, participant at the Second Council of Nicaea in 797
• Basil(eus), participant at the
  Photius 878^[6]

• Gottfried Langwerth von Simmern (1717.05.10 – death 1741.06.19) as
  Auxiliary Bishop Diocese of Regensburg (Germany
  ) (1717.05.10 – 1741.06.19)
• Giacomo Filippo Consoli (1741.11.27 – 1743.12.02) (Italian), as Apostolic Administrator of
  Amelia
  (Italy) (1743.12.02 – death 1770.07)
• Michael Ignatius Frivaisz (1744.02.03 – death 1748.10.07) no actual prelature
• Archbishop James Butler (1773.03.15 – 1774.05.17) as
  Cashel (Ireland
  ) (1773.03.15 – 1774.05.17), next succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cashel (1774.05.17 – death 1791.07.29)
• Bishop-elect
  Lorenzo D’Antoni (1815.12.18 – ?) (Italian), no actual prelature
• Johann Michael von Sailer (1822.09.27 – 1829.10.23) as
  Coadjutor Bishop of Diocese of Regensburg
  (Germany) (1822.09.27 – 1829.10.23), next succeeding as Bishop of Regensburg (1829.10.23 – 1832.05.20)
• Manuel José Pardio Lizama (1840.04.27 – death 1861.05) as Auxiliary Bishop of
  Yucatán
  (Mexico) (1840.04.27 – 1861.05)
• Joseph Larocque (1867.01.15 – death 1887.11.18) as emeritate; previously Titular Bishop of
  Montréal (Quebec, Canada) (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22), Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe
  (Canada) (1860.06.22 – 1866.02.04)
• Joseph-Auguste Chevalier,
  Mysore (British India
  ) (1873.11.11 – 1880.03.25)
• André-Albert Blais (1889.12.28 – 1891.02.06) as Coadjutor Bishop of
  Saint-Germain de Rimouski
  (Canada) (1889.12.28 – 1891.02.06), next succeeded as Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (1891.02.06 – death 1919.01.23)
• John Conmy (1892.05.25 – 1893.04.23) as Coadjutor Bishop of Killala (Ireland) (1892.05.25 – 1893.04.23), next succeeded as

Bishop of Killala (1893.04.23 – death 1911.08.26)

• Augustin Dontenwill,
  Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia
  (1909.01.19 – death 1931.11.30)
• Tobias Mullen (1899.08.10 – death 1900.04.22) as emeritate, formerly Bishop of Erie (USA) (1868.03.03 – 1899.08.10)
• Joseph Maria Koudelka (1907.11.29 – 1913.08.06) first as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Cleveland (USA) (1907.11.29 – 1911.09.04), then as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Milwaukee (USA) (1911.09.04 – 1913.08.06); later Bishop of Superior (USA) (1913.08.06 – death 1921.06.24)
• Thomas Joseph Shahan (1914.07.24 – death 1932.03.09) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Baltimore (USA) (1914.07.24 – 1932.03.09)
• Francesco Joosten,
  Sagalassus
  (1947.11.20 – death 1948.05.02)
• Aurelian Bilgeri,
  Eshowe (South Africa
  ) (1947.06.12 – 1951.01.11), next promoted first Bishop of Eshowe (1951.01.11 – death 1973.07.24)
• Jan Klooster,
  Apostolic Vicar of Surabaia (Java, Indonesia
  ) (1953.02.19 – 1961.01.03), promoted first Bishop of Surabaya (Indonesia) (1961.01.03 – retired 1982), died 1990
• Lionello Berti, O.M.I. (norn Italy) (1962.06.18 – death 1968.02.24) first as Auxiliary Bishop of
  Apostolic Vicar of Luang Prabang (Laos)
  (1963.03.01 – 1968.02.24).

• Lütfi Elvan (born 1962), mining engineer, politician and government minister

References

Gallery

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  Ermenek Ulu Cami
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  Ermenek Ulu Cami General view
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  Ermenek Ulu Cami Mihrab
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  Ermenek Ulu Cami Detail of minber
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  Ermenek Ulu Cami top of minber
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  Ermenek Ulu Cami
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  Ermenek Unknown mosque
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  Ermenek Unknown mosque

Sources and external links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ermenek.

• District municipality's official website (in Turkish)
• A web portal about Ermenek
• GCatholic - titular see of Germanopolis

Bibliography

• Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 438
• Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 1027-1028
• Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 5, p. 209; vol. 6, pp. 224–225
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Germanicopolis". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. "Geographical information on Ermenek, Turkey".
• Ermenek at GEOnet Names Server
• Ermenek in 120 pictures