Hadrianoi

Hadrianoi ( Greek  Ἁδριάνοι , Latin Hadriani ) was an ancient city in the Mysia region of Asia Minor . It belonged to the Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus and was located in today's Orhaneli in Turkey .

As its name shows, the city ​​on Mysian Olympus was founded by the Roman emperor Hadrian , like the nearby cities of Hadrianoutherai and Hadrianeia . The era of the city began in AD 131/132. Hadrianoi, located at the point where a road running south from Prusa crossed the Rhyndakos River, is believed to have contributed to the urbanization of the area. It was organized according to the usual pattern of a Greek polis . The orator Aelius Aristides , who may have been born near the later city in 117, received Hadrianoi's citizenship.

The titular bishopric Hadriani ad Olympum ( Italian : Adriani ) of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city . The diocese belonged to the church province Nicomedia .

literature

• Mary Taliaferro Boatwright: Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire . Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-691-04889-4 , pp. 188-190.
• Leonhard Schmitz :  Hadriani . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
• Elmar Schwertheim : The inscriptions of Hadrianoi and Hadrianeia (= inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor . Vol. 33). Habelt, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7749-2272-1 .

Web links

• T. Drew Bear; R. Talbert; T. Elliott; S. Gillies: Places: 609396 (Hadrianoi) . Pleiades. Retrieved January 23, 2013.

Coordinates: 39 ° 54 '  N , 29 ° 0'  E