Epiphaneia (Cilicia)
Coordinates: 36 ° 58 ' N , 36 ° 8' E
Epiphaneia ( Greek Ἐπιφανεία ), originally Oiniandos , was an ancient city in the "flat" Cilicia in southeast Asia Minor in what is now Turkey .
The city got its new name from the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV. Epiphanes at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. Chr. 67 BC The Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus settled defeated Cilician pirates there. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries Epiphaneia minted its own coins. In 260 AD the city was captured by the troops of the Sassanid Shapur I. In late antiquity, Epiphaneia belonged to the province of Cilicia secunda . The titular bishopric of Epiphany in Cilicia of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city .
Extensive ruins of the city have been preserved a few kilometers west of the Turkish town of Erzin . These include an aqueduct, a theater and two Byzantine churches. On site, the ruins are referred to as those of the ancient battle site of Issos , which was probably about ten kilometers south of Dörtyol .
literature
- Michael Gough : Epiphaneia (Oiniandos) Cilicia Campestris, 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 .
- Mustafa H. Sayar: Epiphaneia [1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , Sp. 1149.
Web links
- Coins of Epiphaneia (English)