Amblada Explained

Amblada (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἄμβλαδα) was a town of ancient Lycaonia or of Pisidia, inhabited in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times. It was the seat of a bishop; no longer a residential see, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Strabo places it in Pisidia; the bishopric was suffragan to the metropolitan of Lycaonia.[1] The coin minted copper coins during the period of the Antonines and their successors, with the epigraph Ἀμβλαδέων.

Its site is located near, Seydişehir, Konya Province, Turkey.

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37.5186°N 31.7386°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2a92.html Catholic Hierarchy