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Derbe ( ancient Greek Δέρβη ) was an ancient and early Byzantine town in the south of Asia Minor landscape Lycaonia near the border with Cappadocia . It was near or on the Kerti Hüyük near today's village of Devri Şehri 22 km north of the city of Karaman (in ancient times Laranda) in Turkey.
Derbe is mentioned by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Strabon . The apostle Paul visited Derbe on his missionary trips and founded a Christian community there. The city had been a diocese since 381 at the latest, the titular diocese of Derbe of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to this. Probably in the 8th / 9th In the 19th century Derbe was abandoned as a result of Arab invasions.
literature
- Michael Ballance: The Site of Derbe. A New Inscription. In: Anatolian Studies 7, 1957, pp. 147-151.
- Michael Ballance: Derbe and Faustinopolis. In: Anatolian Studies 14, 1964, pp. 139-145.
- Hans Treidler: Derbe 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 1493.
- Klaus Belke : Derbe. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 481.
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Coordinates: 37 ° 26 ' N , 33 ° 10' E