Dioclea (Phrygia)

Dioclea, Dioclia, Diocleia, or Diokleia (Ancient Greek: Διοκλεία) was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.[1][2] located at Latitude38.682465, Longitude 29.942013.[3] The native name may have been Dokela.

History

In Hellenic times it had a mint,[4][5] under its king Elagabalus.[6]

It was the see of a Christian bishop.[7] Lequien, names only two known bishops of the town.[8] Constantius (fl 431[9] - 451[10]) and Evander[11] No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[12]

Its site is located near Yeşilhisar in Asiatic Turkey.[1][13]

References

1. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62, and directory notes accompanying.
2. Ptolemy. The Geography. 5.2.23.
3. Dioclea, Phyricia
4. diocleia, monism.org.
5. https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=359
6. Barclay Vincent Head, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Phrygia British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals, (order of the Trustees, 1906) page 181.
7. W. M. Ramsay, The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 4 (1883), pp. 370-436
8. Lequien, Or. Christ., I, 823
9. Politics and Bishops' Lists at the First Council of Ephesus.
10. Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1(Liverpool University Press, 2005) page 335.
11. Richard Price, Michael Gaddis The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1(Liverpool University Press, 2005) page 227
12. Catholic Hierarchy
13. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Diocleia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.