Sozopolis (Pisidia)

Coordinates: 38°04′21″N 30°28′14″E / 38.072539°N 30.470512°E / 38.072539; 30.470512
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Sozopolis in Pisidia (

Seleucid times, was a town in the former Roman province of Pisidia, and is not to be confused with the Thracian Sozopolis in Haemimonto in present-day Bulgaria. Its site may correspond to present-day Uluborlu in Isparta Province, Turkey.[2]

Location

map of country round Sozopolis, Pisidia.

Sozopolis in Pisidia must have been situated in the border region of that province, since some ancient accounts place it in Phrygia.[3] Whereas older source locate it "Souzon, south of Aglasoun".,[4] modern scholars locate its site near Uluborlu, Isparta Province.[5][6]

History

Lycia, but that conclusion is not universally accepted.[9]

Fragments of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti in Greek have been found in the area.

Sozopolis in Pisidia was the birthplace of Severus of Antioch (born around 456).[11]

The

venerated especially the Archangel Michael and had a church dedicated to him.[13]

Bishopric

Sozopolis sent its bishop and possibly two other representatives to the Council of Constantinople in 381,[3] and its bishop attended the Council of Ephesus in 431.[14]

The see is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[2]

References

  1. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. p. 576. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^
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    ), p. 975
  3. ^
    ISBN 9780520914087
    – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Philip Schaff: NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". www.ccel.org.
  5. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
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  6. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  7. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ἀπολλωνία.
  8. ^ Athen. III 81 Α
  9. ^ a b Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Apollonia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
  10. ^ Gustav Hirschfeld: Apollonia 21.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. II, 1, Stuttgart 1893ff., col. 116.
  11. ISBN 1134567804
    – via Google Books.
  12. ^ September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  13. ^ Evcim, Seckin; Olcay Uçkan, Bedia Yelda (2019). Durak, Koray; Jevtic, Ivana (eds.). "The Other Beliefs in Byzantine Phrygia and Their Reflections in Rock-Cut Architecture". Identity and the other in Byzantium: Papers from the fourth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, İstanbul 23–25 June 2016: 171–188. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  14. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monophysites and Monophysitism". www.newadvent.org.

Sources

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

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