Tium
Tium (
ancient Paphlagonia or Bithynia
.
Apart from Tium, Latinized forms of the name are Teium,[2] Tieium and Tius, corresponding to the Greek names Τεῖον (Teion), Τιεῖον (Tieion), Τῖον (Tion) and Τῖος (Tios).[3]
History
The town was founded as a colony from the Greek city of
Amastris. Tium, says Strabo, soon detached itself from the community, but the rest kept together,[8] probably in 282 BCE, recovered its autonomous status.[1]
Tium was part of
Justinian united Honorias with Paphlagonia in a decree that expressly mentioned Tium among the cities that were affected.[9] There are coins of Tium as late as the reign of Gallienus, on which the ethnic name appears as Τιανοί, Τεῖοι, and Τειανοί.[10]
Its site is located near Filyos (formerly Hisarönü), Asiatic Turkey.[11][12]
Bishopric
Tium was a bishopric from at least the 4th century, a
metropolitan see of Honorias.[3]
Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 575) mentions among its bishops:[13]
- Apragmonius at the First Council of Ephesusin 431;
- Andrew in 518;
- Eugenius in 536;
- Longinus at the Sixth General Councilin 681;
- Michael at the Seventh General Councilin 787;
- Constantine, at the Eighth General Council in 869, and author of an account of the transfer of the relics of St. Euphemia of Chalcedon (Acta Sanctorum, September, V, 274-83).
This see figures in all the Notitiae episcopatuum.
References
- ^ a b c Ancient coinage of Bithynia
- ^ William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Leocritus"
- ^ a b William Anderson, "Late Byzantine occupation of the castle at Tios" in Anatolia Antiqua XVII (2009), pp. 265-277
- ISBN 0-472-11199-X
- ^ Strabo, Geography 5.3.8
- ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.855.
- ^ Memnon, ap. Phot. Cod. ccxxiv.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 5.3.8. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Novella 29 of Justinian
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Tius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Tomus I, coll. 575-576]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Amastris". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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