Harpasa

Harpasa ( Greek  Ἅρπασα ) was an ancient city in Asia Minor landscape Caria , today Arpaz at Esenköy in Turkey.

Harpasa was on the Harpasos (today Akçay ), a left tributary of the meander . There is said to have been a strange rock near it. In the late Hellenistic and Roman times, when the city belonged to the province of Asia , Harpasa minted coins. The titular Harpasa of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city .

literature

• Leonhard Schmitz :  Harpasa . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.

Web links

• Coins of Harpasa (English)
• Places: 599637 (Harpasa) ( English ) Pleiades. Retrieved February 23, 2012.

Remarks

1. ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 5, 109 .
2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 2, 211 .

Coordinates: 37 ° 48 '  N , 28 ° 21'  E