Lebedus
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Lebedos
)Λέβεδος (in Ancient Greek) | |
Ürkmez, İzmir Province, Turkey | |
| Region | Ionia |
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| Coordinates | 38°4′41″N 26°57′53″E / 38.07806°N 26.96472°E |
| Type | Settlement |
Lebedus or Lebedos (
stadia (16.65 km) to the east of Cape Myonnesus, and 120 (22.2 km) west of Colophon
.
The city was built on and around a very small peninsula (175 m long, reaching a height of 61 m and with an isthmus 201 m wide), which is called the Kısık Peninsula today and depends on the coastal township of
Ürkmez, part of Seferihisar locality, a district center depending on the province seat of İzmir
.
History
According to
Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόπομπος) and that it previously bore the name of Artis in Lydia. Velleius Paterculus wrote that Greeks from Athens established the city as well as other cities in Ionia.[1]
Lebedos became a flourishing city thanks to its commerce, and was famous for its mineral springs, but it was one of the smaller cities of the Ionian League, handicapped by the limited space of its hinterland and a comparatively unsuitable port.
In the
Hellenistic age, around 304 BC, Antigonus I Monophthalmus tried to join the city with Teos; however, this operation was incomplete and eventually annulled by Lysimachus, who moved its population to Ephesus in 292 BC. At some point, the name Ptolemais (Πτολεμαΐς) was bestowed on the town, probably by Ptolemy III Euergetes.[2]
Under Roman rule, it flourished anew, becoming the meeting place of the actors of all Ionia when these were temporarily exiled from Teos, and festivals were celebrated in honour of Dionysus.
Its scanty remains are near the modern town of Seferihisar.
Ecclesiastical history
Lebedus was an
Ephesus until the 12th or 13th century.[3] Three bishops are known: Cyriacus, who witnessed the Second Council of Ephesus in 449; Julian, represented by his metropolitan at the Council of Chalcedon in 451;[4] Theophanes or Thomas, who attended the Second Council of Nicaea
in 787.
Lebedus remains as a
Roman Catholic titular see.[5]
Sources
- Bean, George E. (1967). Aegean Turkey: An archaeological guide. London: Ernest Benn. pp. 115-122. ISBN 978-0-510-03200-5.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lebedos.
- ^ Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, 1.4.3
- ISBN 0-520-08329-6.
- ^
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Lebedus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (University of Liverpool Press, 2005), p.153.
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 914
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