Nisa (Lycia)
Nisa (Ancient Greek: Νίσα or Νίσσα) was a town in Lycia near the source of the River Xanthus.[1][2][3][4][5]
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Location
Its site has been identified as Küçükahuriyala,[6] near Sütiğen, about 25 kilometres north of Kaş in Antalya Province, Turkey. The ruins are plentiful but in a poor state. They include part of the well-built city wall, a theatre, a stadium, a paved agora with stoa and some bases bearing inscriptions. The necropolis to the west includes sarcophagi and constructed tombs.[7]
History
Apart from its mention by Ptolemy[8] and in the Synecdemus, where it is misspelled "Misae" (Μίσαι),[9] and in the Notitiae Episcopatuum, nothing is known of the town's history. The only known coin that it issued is of a type that does not show membership of the Lycian League.[7]
Bishopric
A Christian bishopric was established in Nisa, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Myra, the capital of the Roman province of Lycia, to which Nisa belonged. The only bishop of the see whose name is preserved in extant documents is Georgius, who took part in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.[10][11][12]
No longer a residential bishopric, Nisa in Lycia is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[6]
References
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 941
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- ↑ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 987-988
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 450
- ↑ Jean Darrouzès, Listes épiscopales du concile de Nicée (787), in: Revue des études byzantines, 33 (1975), p. 44.
