Mastaura (Caria)

Coordinates: 37°57′23″N 28°20′30″E / 37.956332°N 28.341756°E / 37.956332; 28.341756
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Mastaura
Mastaura is located in Turkey
Mastaura
Mastaura
Coordinates: 37°57′23″N 28°20′30″E / 37.956332°N 28.341756°E / 37.956332; 28.341756
CountryTurkey
Provinceİzmir
Caria and Lydia circa 50 AD (Mastaura not shown)

Mastaura (

Ancient Greek: Μάσταυρα), was an ancient Greek town near Dereağzı, Nazilli in northern Caria, not to be confused with ancient Mastaura (Lycia)
.

Some sources speak of the town as originally belonging to Lydia, a kingdom into which Croesus (560-546 BC) briefly incorporated Caria.[1][2]

Pliny the Elder mentions the town as dependent on Ephesus as its provincial capital and thus as belonging in his time (1st century AD) to the Roman province of Asia[3] which, under the Roman Empire, incorporated Caria.

In

Severan times the city became rich as evidenced by the impressive buildings.[4]

Location

Mastaura was situated in the north of

Tripolis.[5][6]

The geographer

Maeander River.[7]

Its site is located near

Asian Turkey.[8][9] On 16 October 1836, William Hamilton visited the ruins, then overgrown with ilex trees, brush and brambles.[10]

Remains

Recently the remains of a Roman-era amphitheatre dating from about 200 AD[11] and holding up to 20,000 spectators have been discovered still standing to a considerable height.[12] It is only the third amphitheatre to be found in Turkey.

Coinage

Mastaura had the privilege of having a mint and some of its coins are extant.[5][2]

Bishopric

Council of Constantinople (879), but it is unclear whether he was bishop of Mastaura in Asia or of Mastaura in Lycia.[14]

No longer a residential bishopric, Mastaura in Asia is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[15]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-926337-0
    . Retrieved 11 December 2021 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b "Our objects and artworks". The Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  3. ^ Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book V, chapter 31
  4. ^ Magazine, Smithsonian; Gershon, Livia. "In Ancient Turkey, Gladiators Fought at This Colosseum-Like Amphitheater". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MAACAH, MASSICYTES, MASTAURA". Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Istanbul Guide, "Carie ... Mastaura & Harpasa"". Istanbulguide.net. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1". Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  8. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  9. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
    .
  10. ^ Hamilton, William John (11 December 1842). "Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: With Some Account of Their Antiquities and Geology". J. Murray. Retrieved 11 December 2021 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "Encuentran un anfiteatro romano en la antigua ciudad de Mastaura en Anatolia". Terraeantiqvae.com. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  12. ^ Laura Geggel (20 April 2021). "Gladiator arena from Roman era unearthed in Turkey". Livescience.com. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  13. OCLC 955922585
    .
  14. ^ Pascal Culerrier, Les évêchés suffragants d'Éphèse aux 5e-13e siècles, in Revue des études byzantines, vol. 45, 1987, p. 157
  15. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 925

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mastaura". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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