Anazarbus, also known as Justinopolis (, medieval Ain Zarba; modern Anavarza; ), was an ancient

Cilicia Cilicia () is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrated mostly at the Cilician plain (). The region inclu ...

n city. Under the

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, it was the capital of

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. Roman emperor

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rebuilt the city in 527 after a strong earthquake hit it. It was destroyed in 1374 by the forces of the

Mamluk Empire The Mamluk Sultanate (), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries, with Cairo as its capital. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks ...

, after their conquest of

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Location

It was situated in

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in modern Turkey, in the present

Çukurova Çukurova (), or the Cilician Plain (''Cilicia Pedias'' in antiquity), is a large fertile plain in the Cilicia region of southern Anatolia. The plain covers the easternmost areas of Mersin Province, southern and central Adana Province, western Os ...

(or classical Aleian plain) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present

Ceyhan River The Ceyhan River (historically Pyramos or Pyramus (), Leucosyrus () or Jihun) is a river in Anatolia in the south of Turkey. Course of the river The Ceyhan River (Pyramus) has its source (known as ''Söğütlü Dere'') at a location called '' ...

(or classical

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) and near its tributary the Sempas Su. A lofty isolated ridge formed its

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. Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the

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's identification of it with

Cyinda Cyinda () was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey. Cyinda in western Cilicia was famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia. It apparently served as a collection point where booty from the Asian interior ...

, famous as a treasure city in the wars of

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, cannot be accepted in the face of

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's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.

History

According to the ''

'', the original name of the place was Cyinda or Kyinda or Quinda (); and that it was next called Diocaesarea (Διοκαισάρεια). A city in Cilicia called Kundu rebelled against the Assyrian king

Esarhaddon Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (, also , meaning " Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ''ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn'') was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BC. The third king of the S ...

in 7th century BC, but it's unclear if there is a connection. At least it's known a city called Anazarbus (Ἀνάζαρβος) and Anazarba (Ἀνάζαρβα) and Anazarbon (Ἀνάζαρβον), situated on the river

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, existed in the first century BC and was a part of the small client-kingdom of

Tarcondimotus I Tarcondimotus I (; died 31 BC) was a Roman client king of Cilicia, who played a role in the Roman civil wars of the late Roman Republic. Based on inscriptions relating to his family from Castabala, Tarcondimotus was the son of Straton. and had t ...

until it was annexed by Rome. How the city obtained the name is a matter of conjecture. According to

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, after the city was destroyed by an earthquake, the emperor

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sent thither one Anazarbus, a man of senatorial rank, who rebuilt the city, and gave to it his name. This account cannot be accurate, as Valesius remarks, for it was called Anazarbus in Pliny's time. There are three writers of antiquity from this city.

Pedanius Dioscorides Pedanius Dioscorides (, ; 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of (in the original , , both meaning "On Medical Material") , a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on he ...

is called a native of Anazarbus; but the period of Dioscorides is not certain. It was also the home of the poet

Oppian Oppian (, ; ), also known as Oppian of Anazarbus, of Corycus, or of Cilicia, was a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet during the reign of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, who composed the ''Halieutica'', a five-book didactic epic on fishing. ...

and the historian

Asclepiades of Anazarba Asclepiades () or Asclepios of Anazarba in Cilicia Cilicia () is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrat ...

. Its later name was Caesarea ad Anazarbum, and there are many medals of the place in which it is both named Anazarbus and Caesarea at or under Anazarbus. On the division of Cilicia it became the chief place of the

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, with the title of Metropolis. Early in the sixth century, in the reign of

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, it was named Justinopolis or Ioustinoupolis (Ἰουστινούπολις). The city suffered from an earthquake in 526 and was rebuilt by

and renamed Justinianopolis or Ioustinianoupolis (Ἰουστινιανούπολις); but the old name persisted, and when

Thoros I Toros I (), also Thoros I, (unknown – 1129 / February 17, 1129 – February 16, 1130) was the third lord of Armenian Cilicia ( 1100 / 1102 / 1103 – 1129 / 1130). His life Toros was the elder son of Constantine I, lord of Armenian Cilicia ...

, king of

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, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva. Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which

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ed from the

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, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the

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and the early Muslim invaders. It had been rebuilt by

Harun al-Rashid Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rāshīd (), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Hārūn al-Rāshīd (), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 unti ...

in 796, refortified at great expense by the

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Sayf al-Dawla ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū'l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī (, 22 June 916 – 8 February 967), more commonly known simply by his honorific of Sayf al-Dawla (, ), was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, ...

(mid-10th century) and again destroyed in 962 by

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. In the 11th century it was again a major fortress, comparable to Tarsos and Marash, and belonged to the realm of

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before it was captured around 1084 by the

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. In late 1097 or early 1098 it was captured by the armies of the

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and after the conquest of Antioch it was incorporated into

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. The site briefly exchanged hands between the

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and Armenians, until it was formally part of the

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, also known as Cilician Armenia, Lesser Armenia, Little Armenia or New Armenia, and formerly known as the Armenian Principality of Cilicia, was an Armenian state formed during the High Middle Ages by Armenian ...

. Anazarbus was one of a chain of Armenian fortifications stretching through Cilicia. The castle of Sis (modern

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) lies to the north while Tumlu Castle and Yilankale are to the south, and the fortresses of

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and

Sarvandikar Sarvandikar (), also spelled ''Sarvanda k'ar'' (). It was the Frankish castle of ''Savranda'' and is officially known today as Savranda Kalesi. The site is a medieval castle in the former Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, located in Turkey's Osmani ...

are to the east. The

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Empire of Egypt finally destroyed the city in 1374.

Remains

The Crusaders are probably responsible for the construction of an impressive donjon atop the center of the outcrop. Most of the remaining fortifications, including the curtain walls, massive horseshoe-shaped towers, undercrofts, cisterns, and free-standing structures date from the Armenian periods of occupation, which began with the arrival of the Rubenid Baron T‛oros I, . Within the fortress are two Armenian chapels and the magnificent (but severely damaged) three-aisle church built by T‛oros I to celebrate his conquests. The church was once surrounded by a continuous, well-executed dedicatory inscription in Armenian. The present wall of the lower city is of late construction. It encloses a mass of ruins conspicuous in which are a fine

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, the colonnades of two streets, a gymnasium, etc. A stadium and a theatre lie outside the walls to the south. The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock. There are no notable structures in the upper town. For picturesqueness the site is not equaled in Cilicia, and it is worthwhile to trace the three fine

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to their sources. A necropolis on the escarpment to the south of the curtain wall can also be seen complete with signs of illegal modern excavations. A modest Turkish farming village ( Dilekkaya) lies to the southwest of the ancient city. A small outdoor museum with some of the artifacts collected in the area can be viewed for a small fee. Also nearby are some beautiful mosaics discovered in a farmers field. A visit in December 2002 showed that the three aqueducts mentioned above have been nearly completely destroyed. Only small, isolated sections are left standing with the largest portion lying in a pile of rubble that stretches the length of where the aqueducts once stood. A powerful earthquake that struck the area in 1945 is thought to be responsible for the destruction. In 2013, excavations uncovered the first known colonnaded double-lane road of the ancient world, 34 meters wide and 2700 meters long, also uncovered the ruins of a church and a bathhouse.Statue of Hygieia and Eros uncovered in southern Turkey
/ref> In 2017, archaeologists discovered a limestone statue of the goddess

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and the god

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. The statue is thought to date to the third or fourth century B.C.

Ecclesiastical history

Anazarbus was the capital and so also from 553 (the date of the

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) the

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of the Late

. In the 4th century, one of the bishops of Anazarbus was Athanasius, a "consistent expounder of the theology of Arius." His theological opponent, Athanasius of Alexandria, in ''De Synodis'' 17, 1 refers to Anazarbus as Ναζαρβῶν. Maximin of Anazarbus attended the

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. A 6th century ''

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'' indicates that it had as

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sees Epiphania,

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, Irenopolis, Flavias, Castabala and Aegeae.

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was also subject to Anazarbus, but after the 6th century was made exempt, and

Mopsuestia Mopsuestia ( and Μόψου ''Mopsou'' and Μόψου πόλις and Μόψος; Byzantine Greek: ''Mamista'', ''Manistra'', ''Mampsista''; Arabic: ''al-Maṣṣīṣah''; Armenian: ''Msis'', ''Mises'', ''Mam(u)estia''; modern Yakapınar) is an a ...

was raised to the rank of

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, though without suffragans.

Latin Catholic titular see

The

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was revived in the 18th century as a see of the

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church, Anazarbus.''

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2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ). It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, generally of the highest (Metropolitan) rank, ''with an episcopal (lowest rank) exception:'' * Titular Archbishop Giuseppe Maria Saporiti (1726.04.08 – 1743.12.02) * ''Titular Bishop Isidro Alfonso Cavanillas (1753.04.09 – 1755.05.12)'' * Titular Archbishop Gerolamo Formagliari (1760.07.21 – 1781) * Titular Archbishop Romain-Frédéric Gallard (1839.02.21 – 1839.09.28) * Titular Archbishop Andon Bedros Hassoun (1842.06.07 – 1846.08.02), as Coadjutor Archeparch of Istanbul of the Armenians (Turkey) (1842.06.07 – 1846.08.02), succeeded as Archeparch of Istanbul of the Armenians (Turkey) (1846.08.02 – 1866.09.14), later Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon) ( 866.09.141867.07.12 – 1881.06), created

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of Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio (1880.12.16 – 1884.02.28) * Titular Archbishop Giorgio Labella,

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(O.F.M.) (1847.06.04 – 1860.10.27) * Titular Archbishop Charles Petre Eyre (1868.12.03 – 1878.03.15) * Titular Archbishop John Baptist Salpointe (1884.04.22 – 1885.08.18) * Titular Archbishop

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(1887.04.19 – 1887.12.03) (later Cardinal)* * Titular Archbishop François Laurencin (1888.06.01 – 1892.12.18) * Titular Archbishop Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas (1893.06.15 – 1897.09.26) * Titular Archbishop Raimondo Ingheo (1907.12.16 – 1911.07.08) * Titular Archbishop Cláudio José Gonçalves Ponce de Leon,

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(C.M.) (1912.01.09 – 1924.05.26) * Titular Archbishop Raymund Netzhammer,

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(] O.S.B.) (1924.07.14 – 1945.09.18) * Titular Archbishop Michele Akras (1945.10.27 – 1947.02.05) * Titular Archbishop Heinrich Döring (ハインリヒ・デーリング), S.J. (1948.01.15 – 1951.12.17) * Titular Archbishop Joseph-Marie Le Gouaze (1955.06.24 – 1964.07.31)

Armenian Catholic titular see

In the 19th century, an

Armenian Catholic Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

titular bishopric A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

of Anazarbus (of the Armenians) (Anazarbus degli Armeni in Curiate Italian) was established. It was a suppressed in 1933,''Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi'', Volume 8, Page 99, and Page 328
having had a single incumbent, of the intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank : * Titular Archbishop Avedis Arpiarian (1898.04.05 – 1911.08.27), previously Eparch of Kharput of the Armenians (1890.09.23 – 1898.04.05); later Eparch of Marasc of the Armenians (1911.08.27 – 1928.06.29), Auxiliary Eparch of the patriarchate

Cilicia of the Armenians The Patriarchate of Cilicia () is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction and the only patriarchate of the Armenian Catholic Church of the Catholic Church. The territorial jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Cilicia is the Archeparchy of Beirut, over which t ...

(Lebanon) (1928.06.29 – 1931.10.17),

Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia This is a list of Catholicos Patriarchs of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics. The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia was established in 1740 following a schism within the Armenian Patriarchate based in Cilicia and was recognized by the Pope ...

(Lebanon) ( 931.10.171933.03.13 – 1937.10.26)

Notable locals

(1st century) Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist * St.

Domnina of Anazarbus Saint Domnina (Greek: Δομνίνα) is venerated as a Christian martyr by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. According to tradition, she was a native of Cilicia who was imprisoned at Anazarbus and repeatedly beaten on the order of ...

Domina of Anazarbus
* St. Theodula of AnazarbusSt. Theodula of Anazarbus in Cilicia

References

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