Parion
Parion (Latin Parium ) is an ancient Greek city in Mysia on the southern coast of the Hellesponts ( Dardanelles ) near the modern Turkish town of Kemer (Greek: Kamares).
history
Parion, located between Lampsakos and Priapos near the cape of Tersana-Bounou, was probably founded by Parians , hence the name. It belonged to the Delisch-Attic League , in the Hellenistic period to the sphere of influence of Lysimachus , later to the empire of the Attalids of Pergamon .
In Roman times Parion became the Colonia Pariana Iulia Augusta under Augustus .
Church history
According to the acts of martyrdom of St. Onesiphoros, the Christian community was supposedly founded before 180 and was originally a suffragan of Cyzicus . Because of its importance, the parish had been an archdiocese since 640 and existed as such until the end of the 13th century, when it was elevated to the status of a metropolitan seat by the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II under the name of "Pegæ and Parium". A Latin bishop, unknown by name, was appointed by Pope Innocent III in 1209 . appointed. In 1354 the metropolis was abolished, its last owner received the seat of Sozopolis in Thrace as compensation .
Today Parium is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
Known saints
- Menignus, died a martyr under Emperor Decius , festival on November 22nd
- Theogenes, bishop and martyr, feast on January 3rd
- Basil, bishop and martyr (9th century), feast on April 12th .
literature
- Peter Frisch : The inscriptions from Parion. Habelt, Bonn 1983 ( inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , vol. 25), ISBN 3-7749-1886-4
- Nicola Bonacasa: Parion (Kemer) Misia, 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 .
- Cevat Başaran, Parion. The Flourishing City of Ancient Troad - Surveys, Excavation and Restoration Works carried out between 1997-2009 , Istanbul 2015, ISBN 978-605-4701-79-7