Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman period - general map - regions and main settlements

Cinna or Kinna was a town of

ancient Galatia Galatia (; , ''Galatía'') was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir in modern Turkey. Galatia was named after the Gauls from Thrace (cf. Tylis), who settled h ...

. It was known as Zallara in the Hittite period. It was also the seat of a bishop; no longer a residential see, it remains a

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of the

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Location

Its site is located near Karahamzılı, Asiatic Turkey. The exact location of Cinna is now lost though it is thought to have been near village of Balyk Koyounji (vilayet of Angora) in a rich corn-growing area, west of

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

. It is also thought to be in the locations of

Cihanbeyli Cihanbeyli is a municipality and district of Konya Province, Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. I ...

or Kulu.

History

During the

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the town was a

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of a

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, several of whom are known to us. * Gregorius, attendee at Council of Niceae 325 * Philumenus of Cinna * Acacius * Daniel * Amiantus * Plato * GeorgeCONSTANS II AND THE ROMAN CHURCH : A POSSIBLE INSTANCE OF IMPERIAL PRESSURE, P. A. B. Llewellyn ''Byzantion'' Vol. 46, No. 1 (1976), pp. 120-126. * Synesius * Thrasius * Antonius

References

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