Although William Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' (1854) said that the '' Synecdemus'' of Hierocles mentions four towns in

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

called Eudocia ( grc, Εὐδοκία), including one in

Cappadocia Cappadocia or Capadocia (; tr, Kapadokya), is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It largely is in the provinces Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, Kırşehir, Sivas and Niğde. According to Herodotus, in the time of the Ionian Re ...

, the text of the ''Synecdemus'' as edited by

Gustav Parthey Gustav Friedrich Konstantin Parthey (27 October 1798 – 2 April 1872) was a German philologist and art historian. Life Born in Berlin, Parthey was the son of (1745–1822), Geheimrat in the General Finance Directorate in Berlin, and Wilhelmine ...

in 1866 mentions no town of that name or of any similar name among the Cappadocian towns.Gustav Parthey (editor), ''Hieroclis Synecdemus et Notitiae Graecae Episcopatuum'' (Berlin 1866), p. 36
/ref> Smith also said that the town had formerly belonged to the Anatolian Theme but Leo VI incorporated it into Cappadocia. The ''Synecdemus'' was composed, under

Justinian Justinian I (; la, Iustinianus, ; grc-gre, Ἰουστινιανός ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565. His reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized ''renovat ...

(527–565), before 535, three and a half centuries before the time of Leo VI, who reigned from 886 to 912.

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