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Town in ancient Lycia
Eudocia (
ancient Lycia
.
Although William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) said that the Asia Minor called Eudocia (Εὐδοκία), including one in Lycia,
[1] other scholars report the
Synecdemus as calling one or more of them Eudocias or Eudoxias.
[2][3] and the name of the Lycian town as it appears in the text of the
Synecdemus as edited by Parthey in 1866 is clearly Eudocias (Εὐδοκιάς), while noting that in some
Notitiae Episcopatuum the name is given as Eudoxias (Εὐδοξιάς).
[4]
Termessus
and a Pamphylian Eudoxias or Eudocias proof that they were all distinct cities. It is curious then that, although, when speaking of Telmessus, he says that it was the Pamphylian Termessus and the Pamphylian Eudocias that for long had the same bishop,
[5] when he speaks of the Lycian Eudocias, he attributes to that see the same bishops that he attributes elsewhere to the Pamphylian Eudocias, calling the two most ancient one either bishops of Telmessus and Eudocias (when speaking of Lycia) or bishops of Termessus and Eudocias (when speaking of Pamphylia). The bishops that he mentions for both towns that he calls Eudocias are Timotheus (at the 431
Council of Ephesus), Zenodotus (at the 451
Council of Ephesus), and Photius or Photinus (at the 787
Second Council of Nicaea).
[6]
The more recent study by Gams makes no mention of any
bishopric in Lycia called either Eudocias or Eudocia, but mentions both the Lycian Telmessus and the Pamphylian Termessus and Eudocias.
[3]The metropolitan see and capital of that province. The
Annuario Pontificio states that the town that it calls Eudocia was near Makri, the name that at least by the 9th century was given to the city previously called Telmessus, which is now
Fethiye,
Muğla Province,
Turkey
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