Eriza
Eriza or Erisa ( Greek τὰ Ἔρισα ) was an ancient city in the Asia Minor region of Caria on the border with Phrygia in the southwest of today's Turkey.
Eriza was in the lower valley of the Indos between Kibyra and Themisonion . 189 BC It was taken by the Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso . In Roman times it belonged to the province of Asia . Pliny the Elder mentions that ravens were used to hunt there. Some of the city's coins are known from the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. In late antiquity, Eriza was the seat of a bishop; The titular diocese of Eriza of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
literature
- William Mitchell Ramsay : The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia . Volume 1. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1895, pp. 250-260, 266 (on- line ).
- William Smith: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London 1854 ( online ).
Web links
- Coins of Eriza (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Titus Livius 38:14 .
- ↑ Pliny, naturalis historia 10, 124 .