Dometiopolis Explained

Dometiopolis (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Δομετιούπολις) was a city of Cilicia Trachea, and in the later Roman province of Isauria in Asia Minor. Its ruins are found in the village of Katranlı (formerly Dindebul), Ermenek, Karaman Province, Turkey.^[1]

History

The city, whose previous name is unknown, was named Dometiopolis (Greek: Δομετιούπολις) after Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC). According to Constantine Porphyrogenitus it was one of the ten cities of the Isaurian Decapolis.^{[2] [3]}

Episcopal see

The episcopal see of Dometiopolis is mentioned in Gustav Parthey's Notitiæ episcopatuum, I and III, and in Heinrich Gelzer's Nova Tactica, 1618, as a suffragan of Seleucia. Lequien (Oriens Christianus II, 1023) mentions five bishops, from 451 to 879.

It remains a titular see of the Catholic Church,^[4] sometimes under the spelling "Domitiopolis".^[3]

References

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Notes and References

1. Richard J. A. Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-by-map Directory (Princeton University Press 2000), Volume 1, p. 1016
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=gfXlAAAAMAAJ&dq=Dometiopolis&pg=PA242 Stephanus of Byzantium, De Urbibus, edited by Thomas de Pinedo (1725), p. 242
3. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05115a.htm Sophrone Pétridès, "Domitiopolis" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1909)
4. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013), p. 882