Dağ Pazarı

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Dağ Pazarı (or Dağpazarı , formerly Kestel) is a place in Cilicia in today's Turkey and is located 33 km northeast of Mut and 48 km southeast of Karaman at an altitude of about 1400 m.

The place is on the site of an ancient city ​​whose name was probably Koropissos . In the Tabula Peutingeriana he is recorded as Coriopio on the road between Iconium and Seleukia on the Kalykadnos . Their status as a polis is evident from an inscription from the time of Pertinax . In late antiquity the place was the seat of a diocese .

The place is protected on three sides by the sloping slopes towards the Kavak Gözü river, the north side is protected by a city wall. Remains of columned streets, houses and cisterns can be seen within the urban area. Three church buildings have been preserved: In front of the city there is an extra muros grave church , in the city a poorly preserved three-aisled basilica with a baptistery , perhaps the bishop's church, and a still high upright domed church with a gallery. An aqueduct brought water into the city from the south . In the north lie the remains of a hippodrome in the flat terrain .

literature

  • Edwin John Davis: Life in Asiatic Turkey. A Journal of Travel in Cilicia (Pedias and Tracheia), Isauria and Parts of Lycaonia . London 1879, pp. 322-325 ( digitized version ).
  • Arthur C. Headlam : Ecclesiastical Sites in Isauria (Cilicia Trachea). London 1892 ( digitized ).
  • George H. Forsyth: Architectural notes on a trip through Cilicia , in: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 11 (1957) pp. 223-236.
  • Michael Gough : The "Paradise of Dağ Pazarı": A ​​Newly Discovered Early Christian Mosaic in Southern Asia Minor , in: Illustrated London News 233 (1958) pp. 644-646.
  • Michael Gough: The Emperor Zeno and some Cilician Churches , in: Anatolian Studies 22 (1972) 199-212.
  • Michael Gough: Dağ Pazarı. The basilical church extra muros , in: Studies in memory of David Talbot Rice . Edinburgh 1975, pp. 147-163.
  • Michael Gough:  Dağ Pazarı (“Koropissos”) Cilicia Aspera, Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
  • Stephen Hill: Dağ Pazarı and its Monuments - a preliminary report , in: Yayla 2 (1979) 8–12 [here p. 10 city map].
  • Friedrich Hild , Hansgerd Hellenkemper : Cilicia and Isauria (= Tabula Imperii Byzantini Bd. 5). Vienna 1990, pp. 313-314.
  • Stephen Hill: The early Byzantine churches of Cilicia and Isauria . Aldershot 1996, pp. 149-162.
  • Stephen Hill: Alahan and Dağ Pazarı , in: Ancient Anatolia. Fifty years' work by the British Institute of Archeology at Ankara . London 1998, pp. 315-337.
  • Antonio Iacobini: Un modello architettonico bizantino tra centro e periferia: la chiesa cupolata ad ambulacro , in: Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 76 (2003/04) pp. 135-174 ( digital copy ).

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Coordinates: 36 ° 49 '  N , 33 ° 29'  E