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Ancient city in Turkey
Amyzon
(
Ancient Greek
:
?μυζ?ν
) in
Caria
(now Mazin,
Aydın Province
between the villages of
Akmescit
and
Gaffarlar
, in Aegean Turkey) was an ancient
city
30 km south of modern
Kocarlı
.
[1]
[2]
[3]
History
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The city was in the
Athenian alliance
in 405 BC.
[4]
Under the
Seleucids
, Amyzon was one of the cities in the
Chrysaorian League
of Carian cities that lasted at least until 203 BC, when
Antiochus III
confirmed the privileges of Amyzon.
[5]
The League had a form of reciprocal citizenship whereby a citizen of a member city was entitled to certain rights and privileges in any other member city.
[6]
[7]
The city was dismissed by
Strabo
[8]
as a mere
peripolion
('suburb' or 'township') of
Alabanda
; Amyzon was mentioned by
Pliny
,
Ptolemy
and
Hierocles
. In the wars among the successors of
Alexander
, in the 3rd century BC, the city allied with the less immediately threatening power, first with the
Ptolemies
, then with the
Seleucids
. In the second city it concluded an alliance with
Heracleia under Latmos
. On one occasion it sent a delegation to the oracle of Apollo at
Clarus
. The few
coins
identified as from the
mint
at Amyzon are
Hellenistic
and
Imperial Roman
.
Remains
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A stretch of the city wall stands 6 m high (in fact, the terrace wall of the shrine); inside it are a few ruined and unidentifiable buildings, as well as a row of a dozen large vaulted underground chambers, apparently storerooms.
[9]
There are also Byzantine structures. Outside the city a series of ruined terraces mark the site of the
Doric temple
of
Artemis
,
[10]
which dates from the time of the
Hecatomnids
: an architrave block has been found bearing a dedication by
Idrieus
. Numerous other inscriptions abound.
Amyzon was excavated by
Louis Robert
.
[11]
Amyzon was mentioned in the Byzantine lists of bishops. No longer a residential diocese, it is today listed by the
Catholic Church
as a
titular see
.
[12]
Bishopric
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Amyzon is a
titular see
In the province of
Caria
; a suffragan to
Stauropolis
. It was a neighbour to the
bishopric
of
Alinda
.
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
Ancient bishops
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Titular Roman Bishops
[
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]
- Jean Baptiste Gillis (3 Aug 1729 Appointed ? 1 Dec 1736 Died)
[20]
- Charles Alexandre d'Arberg et de Valengin (31 Aug 1767 Appointed ? 19 Dec 1785 Confirmed, Bishop of Ypres (Ieper))
- Godefroid Philippe Joseph de La Porte, (29 Nov 1790 Appointed ? 9 Aug 1796 Succeeded, Archbishop of Naxos)
- Miguel Joaquin Matias Suarez, (20 Dec 1802 Appointed ? 2 May 1831 Died)
- Franz Großmann (Grossmann) (17 Jun 1844 Appointed ? 5 May 1852 Died)
- Ireneus Frederic Baraga (29 Jul 1853 Appointed ? 9 Jan 1857 Appointed, Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan)
- Jozef Twarowski (3 Aug 1857 Appointed ? 19 Jan 1868 Died)
- Ildefonso Giovanni Battista Borgna, (24 May 1871 Appointed ? 14 Dec 1886 Appointed, Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis)
- Heinrich Feiten (20 Sep 1887 Appointed ? 17 Feb 1892 Died)
- Ignacio Ibanez, (4 May 1893 Appointed ? 14 Oct 1893 Died)
- Pio Gaetano Secondo Stella (22 Dec 1893 Appointed ? 21 Sep 1927 Died)
- Gabriele Perlo, (22 Dec 1927 Appointed ? 26 Sep 1948 Died)
- Charles Dauvin, (9 Dec 1948 Appointed ? 28 Dec 1948 Died)
- Baltasar Alvarez Restrepo † (7 May 1949 Appointed ? 18 Dec 1952 Appointed, Bishop of Pereira)
- Luigi Cicuttini (6 Apr 1953 Appointed ? 30 Nov 1956 Appointed, Bishop of Citta di Castello)
[21]
- Antonin Fishta, (17 Dec 1956 Appointed ? 12 Jan 1980 Died)
[22]
Notes
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- ^
George Ewart Bean: Amyzon (Mazın Kalesi) Turkey. In: Richard Stillwell u. a. (Hrsg.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1976,
ISBN
0-691-03542-3
.
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Gernot Lang: Klassische antike Statten Anatoliens. BoD, 2003,
ISBN
3833000686
, p 88?89.
- ^
Louis und Jeanne Robert: Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie. Tome 1. Exploration, histoire, monnaies et inscriptions. de Boccard, Paris 1983.
- ^
Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen, Caria, in An inventory of archaic and classical poleis, New York, (
Oxford University Press
, 2004), p. 1111?1112,
ISBN
0-19-814099-1
.
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J. Ma,
Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor
, :175.
- ^
"Hazlitt,
The Classical Gazetteer
,
s.v.
"Chrysaorium"
"
. p. 109. Archived from
the original
on 2007-03-05
. Retrieved
2016-03-30
.
- ^
Maria Marta Gonzalez Gonzalez, Cartas de la cancilleria helenistica (II) en la revista Memorias de historia antigua, ISSN 0210-2943, Nº 11-12, 1990?1991, pags. 127-146 (p.129)
- ^
Strabo, 658.
- ^
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
:
s.v.
"Amyzon"
.
- ^
See the Bagadates who was a
neokoros
, at the article
Bagadates I
.
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Louis Robert, with Jeanne Robert,
Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie I
, (Paris: De Boccard) 1983.
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Annuario Pontificio 2013
(Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1
), p. 831
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Rosemary Morris, Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
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Henry Mourice, A Defence of Diocesan Episcopacy, in answer to a book of Mr D. Clarkson ... entituled"Primitive Episcopacy.".(1691)
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David Clarkson, Primitive Episcopacy, evincing from Scripture and ancient records, that a bishop in the Apostles times, and for the space of the first three centuries of the Gospel-Church, was no more than a pastor to one single church or congregation, etc. [With a prefatory epistle by Isaac Chauncy].(Nath. Ponder, 1688)
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Bingham, J.; Bingham, R. (1834).
Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works. To which are now added, several sermons
. p.
334
. Retrieved
2016-03-30
.
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Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works. To which are now added, several sermons (Joseph Bingham, 1834)
p 334
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Robert Knaplock, The Works, Volume 1 (Robert Knaplock, 1726)
p834
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Authoritative Christianity. The third world council ... which was held A.D. 431
.
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Amyzona
at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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Amyzon
at GCatholc.org.
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Le Petit Episcopologe
, Issue 188, Number 15,318
37°36′31″N
27°42′40″E
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37.6087°N 27.711°E
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