Danaba was a town and bishopric in the late

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of Phoenicia Secunda.

Location

Danaba is mentioned by

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(V, xv, 24) as a town in the territory of

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. According to the Roman road guide known as Peutinger's table (where it is called Danova) it was a Roman military station between Damascus and Palmyra, twenty miles from Nezala. Today Danaba may be represented by

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, a village five miles southeast of

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, which in the early 20th century was in the Ottoman vilayet of Damascus; about 300 Jacobite Syrians lived there, most of whom had been converted to Catholicism. Sadad and Mahïn have also been proposed as its location.

History

Danaba figures in an Antiochene '' Notitia episcopatuum'' of the 6th century as a

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of Damascus, and remained so till perhaps the 10th century. Only two bishops are known: Theodore, who attended the

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in 451, and who subscribed the letter of the bishops of the province to

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in 458 regarding the murder of

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, and Eulogius, present at the

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in 553.Sophrone Pétridès, "Banaba"
in ''

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'' (New York 1908) No longer a residential

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, Danaba is included in the

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's list of

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s.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p.879

Sources

* Danaba is also mentioned in the book of Jasper. It's king was Angius king of Africa in Danaba. Who fought with Sephora,son of Eliphaze, son of Essau.

References

{{Catholic Catholic titular sees in Asia