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Ancient city in Lydia, Asia Minor
Apollonos Hieron
(
Greek
:
?π?λλωνο? ?ερ?ν
, "Temple of
Apollo
")
[1]
was an ancient city of
Lydia
.
Location
[
edit
]
It was located about 300
stadia
from
Pergamon
on a hill,
[2]
but its exact location is unknown.
[3]
The inhabitants of the village of
Buldan
hold that their town is the location
[4]
of Apollonos Hieron. However, Buldan is known to be the site of
Tripolis
, and both cities sent separate delegates to the
Council of Chalcedon
. Ramsay
[5]
believed that both cities were adjacent to each other and this may explain why Pliny thought the name of Tripolis had previously been Apollonos. He more generally puts it in the Plain of Philadelphia, in the
Lykos River
Valley.
[6]
Apollonos Hieron was known for its temple,
[7]
[8]
and is mentioned by
Pliny
,
[9]
[10]
who describes it as small. It is possibly mentioned by Aristides
[
clarification needed
]
[11]
and
Strabo
.
[12]
Apollonos Hieron minted its own coins,
[13]
[14]
[15]
of which there are today many examples.
Bishopric
[
edit
]
Apollonos Hieron was also the seat of a
bishopric
[16]
and remains a
titular see
in the
Roman Catholic Church
.
[17]
Bishop Leucius of Apollonos Hieron signed at the
Council of Chalcedon
.
[18]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
APOLLONOS HIERON
in
William Smith
, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1854).
- ^
John Anthony Cramer
,
A geographical and historical description of Asia Minor,
Volume 1 (
The University Press
, 1832) p455.
- ^
T. Drew Bear ,
Apollonos Hieron
.
- ^
History of our town, Buldan
Archived
September 14, 2014, at the
Wayback Machine
.
- ^
Sir
William Mitchell Ramsay
, The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia: Being an Essay of the Local History of Phrygia from the Earliest Times to the Turkish Conquest, Volume 2 (Clarendon Press, 1897) p178-179.
- ^
W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor
p124
.
- ^
Alexander MacBean, Samuel Johnson,
A Dictionary of Ancient Geography: Explaining the Local Appellations in Sacred, Grecian, and Roman History
(G. Robinson, 1773)
pA-P
.
- ^
John Anthony Cramer,
A geographical and historical description of Asia Minor
, Volume 1 (The University Press, 1832) p 454.
- ^
Pliny (5.29).
- ^
Alexander MacBean, Samuel Johnson,
A Dictionary of Ancient Geography: Explaining the Local Appellations in Sacred, Grecian, and Roman History
(G. Robinson, 1773)
pA-P
.
- ^
Aristides, 1.
- ^
John Anthony Cramer
, A geographical description of Asia Minor Vol.1 (The University Press, 1832), p. 455.
- ^
Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Apollonoshieron
.
- ^
Coin of Apollonos Hieron
at
Yale University
Art Gallery.
- ^
W. M. Ramsay
,
The Historical Geography of Asia Minor
(
Cambridge University Press
, 2010) p120.
- ^
Hierocles, Synecdemus
p670.
- ^
Apollonos-Hieron (Titular See)
at Catholic heriachy.org.
- ^
Richard Price, Michael Gaddis,
The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon
, Volume 1(Liverpool University Press, 2005) p104.