Traianoupoli

Coordinates: 40°52′N 26°02′E / 40.867°N 26.033°E / 40.867; 26.033
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For places with similar names, see Trajanopolis.
Traianoupoli
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Traianoupoli (

East Macedonia and Thrace region, northeastern Greece
, nowadays named Loutra Traianoupoleos.

Traianoupoli was also the name of a municipality which existed between 1997 and 2011 following the

Kapodistrias Plan
.

Modern town

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Alexandroupoli, of which it is a municipal unit.[2] The municipal unit has an area of 163.549 km2.[3]
Population 2,315 (2021).

The seat of the municipality is in Antheia.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Traianoupoli is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages given in parentheses):[2]

  • Antheia (Antheia, Aristino)
  • Doriko (Doriko, Aetochori)
  • Loutros (Loutros, Loutra Traianopouleos, Pefka)
  • Nipsa

History

Gazi Evrenos
.
Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Trajanopolis (1).

The city was founded by the Roman emperor Trajan (r. 98–117) near the ancient town of Doriscus, and received his name.[4] In the Roman period, the city was famous for its baths.

In the 4th century, it became the capital and

Theme of Macedonia, although a single strategos of Traianoupolis is attested in an 11th-century seal.[4] In autumn 1077, the troops of the rebel general Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder proclaimed him emperor at Traianoupolis.[4]

In the

Umur Bey, erected their camp on the site in the winter of 1343/44, the city had lain destroyed and abandoned for several years. In 1347, the local metropolitan was therefore allowed to reside in Mosynopolis instead.[4] The area fell to the Ottoman Turks by 1365, and in 1371 the see was supplanted by that of Serres in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.[4]

The sole use of the site after the city's abandonment was as a way-station, and in ca. 1375/85, the Ottoman

Gazi Evrenos built an inn (Hana) and a Turkish bath, which still survive.[4] Traces of the medieval buildings and the circuit wall also survive.[4]

The area came under

Treaty of Neuilly
(1919).

Ecclesiastical history

Residential see

Trajanopolis was an

Anastasioupolis-Peritheorion, Polystylon, Poroi, Topeiros and Xantheia.[4]

A bishop Syncletius is attested ca. 400, and several the metropolitans are attested thereafter in various church councils: Peter took part in the

Fifth Ecumenical Council of 553, Tiberius in the Quinisext Council of 691/2, Leo in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, Nicephorus in the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 879, and George in the council of 997.[4] John, Metropolitan of Anastasiopolis, was also administrator (proedros) of Trajanopolis in 1285, but in the early 14th century the see fell vacant. Patriarch Nephon I of Constantinople assumed direct control over its revenues in 1310–14, and in 1315 the vacant see was granted for life to Patriarch John XIII of Constantinople.[4]

The city was largely destroyed and abandoned after the raids of the 1320s, so that in 1347, the metropolitan moved his residence to Mosynopolis. In 1353, the incumbent metropolitan was assigned the Metropolis of Peritheorion as well. Following the Ottoman conquest shortly after, in 1365 the dispossessed Metropolitan was moved to the

Metropolis of Lacedaemon. In 1371 the see of Serres replaced Trajanopolis in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.[4]

The title of Metropolitan of Trajanopolis remained a titular appointment in the Church of Constantinople until 1885, when it was assigned to the Metropolis of Ainos (full title "Ainos, Trajanopolis, and Dede-Agatch"). From 1922, with the establishment of the Metropolis of Alexandroupolis within the modern Greek state, the title passed to it; the full title of the metropolitans of Alexandroupolis is "Metropolitan of Alexandroupolis, Trajanopolis and Samothrace", with the style of "hypertimos and exarch of Rhodope".[5]

Catholic titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic Metropolitan

titular archbishopric
in the 17th century, simply as Traianopolis (or Trajanopolis), which was changed in 1933 to Trajanopolis in Rhodope (since 1970 spelled Traianopolis in Rhodope), avoiding confusion with a Turkish namesake.

It is vacant since 1968, having had the following incumbents, all except the first (merely episcopal, the lowest rank) of the highest (Metropolitan) rank :

  • Titular Bishop Claudio de Villagómez (1684-04-24 – 1685-11-04?)
  • Titular Archbishop Deodat Bogdan Nersesowicz (1701-07-18 – 1709)
  • Titular Archbishop Nicolò Paolo Andrea Coscia (later Cardinal) (1724-06-26 – 1725-06-11)
  • Titular Archbishop Carlo Pignatelli (1725-07-23 – ?)
  • Titular Archbishop Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese (later Cardinal) (1728-03-08 – 1729-07-06)
  • Titular Archbishop Pietro de Carolis (1729-09-07 – 1744-11-27)
  • Titular Archbishop Francisco de Solís Folch de Cardona (later Cardinal) (1749-01-20 – 1752-09-25)
  • Titular Archbishop Niccolò Oddi, Jesuits (S.J.) (later Cardinal) (1754-01-14 – 1764-02-20)
  • Titular Archbishop
    Alexandre-Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord
    (later Cardinal) (1766-12-01 – 1777-10-27)
  • Titular Archbishop Pierre-François-Martial de Loménie (1788-12-15 – 1794-05-10)
  • Titular Archbishop Giuseppe Carrano (1801-07-20 – 1819?)
  • Titular Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen (1819-12-17 – 1821-10-20)
  • Titular Archbishop Giovan Domenico Stefanelli, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1845-01-20 – 1852-02-05)
  • Titular Archbishop Benedict Planchet, S.J. (1853-06-04 – 1859-09-19)
  • Titular Archbishop Saint
    Antonio María Claret y Clará, founder of the Claretians
    (C.M.F.) (1860-07-15 – 1870-10-24)
  • Titular Archbishop Serafino Milani, Franciscans (O.F.M. Obs.) (1874-01-23 – 1874-12-21)
  • Titular Archbishop Augusto Giuseppe Duc (1907-12-19 – 1922-12-14)
  • Titular Archbishop Ismael Perdomo Borrero (1923-02-05 – 1928-01-02)
  • Titular Archbishop Fabio Berdini (1928-03-02 – 1930-03-22)
  • Titular Archbishop Giacinto Gaggia (1930-03-29 – 1933-04-15)
  • Titular Archbishop Mario Zanin (蔡寧) (1933-11-28 – 1958-08-04)
  • Titular Archbishop Albert-Pierre Falière, Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1959-12-19 – 1968-01-12)

See also

References

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  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
  3. ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
  4. ^
    ISBN 3-7001-1898-8
    .
  5. ^ ΣΥΝΟΠΤΙΚΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ (in Greek). Metropolis of Alexandroupolis. Retrieved 11 December 2015.

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