Karpasia
Karpasia ( Greek Καρπασία , Latin Carpasia ) was an ancient city on the north coast of the Karpas peninsula in the northeast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus .
location
According to Strabo, Karpasia was opposite Cape Sarpedon . From Karpasia there are 30 stadiums to the southern sea and the Carpathian islands . Karpasia had a port.
history
According to legend, Karpasia is said to have been founded by Pygmalion , the king of Sidon ( Hellanikos , Skylax ). TB Mitford sees this as an indication of a Phoenician origin. He locates the city in Agios Philon (Ayfilon) on the west coast of the Karpas not far from Rizokarpaso .
In 306 BC Demetrios Poliorketes landed on his campaign against Ptolemy I in Karpasia. Residents of Karpasia participated in the Panathenaic Games in the 2nd century . A marble inscription from the Cyprus Museum in honor of a certain Sophanes of Achaia , the location of which is not known, proves the presence of a Ptolemaic garrison in Karpasia.
In late antiquity, Karpasia was the Christian bishopric . The titular bishopric of Carpasia goes back to this. The city was abandoned after Arab attacks in the early Byzantine period, in the 9th century.
literature
- Edward Boucher James: Carpasia . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
- Eugen Oberhummer : Karpasia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, Sp. 1996-1999 ( digitized version ).
- Kyriakos Nicolaou: Karpasia (Haghios Philon) Cyprus . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Web links
- Karpasia on schwarzaufweiss.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Strabo: Geographica. 14, 6, 3.
- ^ TB Mitford: Further Contributions to the Epigraphy of Cyprus. In: American Journal of Archeology. Volume 65/2, 1961, p. 122.
Coordinates: 35 ° 37 ' N , 34 ° 21' E
