Kandyba
Kandyba or Candyba (
The modern Turkish village next to the ruins of ancient Kandyba is named Çataloluk.
Name
The name Kandyba is the Greek version of the Lycian name Khãkbi. During the Bronze Age, the city may have been known to the Hittites as Hinduwa.[2]
Stephanus of Byzantium reports a mythological tradition that the city took its name from Candybus, son of Deucalion.[3]
Geography
The ancient settlement is set on a hilltop high above the plain of Kasaba, 13 kilometres north of Kaş. The modern village is located to the south of the ruins.
History
In antiquity, Candyba was one of the smaller cities of Lycia, but was an independent
Since it was in the
No longer a residential bishopric, Candyba is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[6]
Archaeology
Some of the rock tombs are beautifully executed. One perfect inscription in Lycian characters was found. A coin procured on the spot from the peasantry had the letters KAND on it.[7]
References
- ^ In the manuscripts of Ptolemy the name, it is said, is Κόνδυβα, but this is a very slight variation, arising from the confusion of two similar letters. In the old Latin version of Ptolemy it is Condica.
- ISBN 9780415349550.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, K354.4
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 979-982
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 449
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 857
- ^ Spratt's Lycia, vol. i. p. 95.
- Martin Zimmermann: Untersuchungen zur historischen Landeskunde Zentrallykiens, Bonn 1992, pp. 56–61.
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Friedrich Hild: Lykien und Pamphylien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini 8. Vienna 2004. Vol. 2, pp. 595–596.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Kandyba". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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