Isinda () or Isionda () was a town of

ancient Pisidia Pisidia (; , ; ) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Antalya in Turkey. Among Pisidia's set ...

. Its site is located near

Korkuteli Korkuteli is a municipality and district of Antalya Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,433 km2, and its population is 56,285 (2022). It is north-west of the city of Antalya. It was previously called İstanoz or Stenez. Etymology Its modern na ...

, Asiatic Turkey. More precisely, the site is now thought to be at the village of Kişla, though formerly identified with Yazır.G.E. Bean, "Isinda (Kişla) Turkey" in ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites'' (Princeton University Press 1976)
/ref> In the 1840s,

Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (11 May 181112 March 1888) was an English vice-admiral, hydrographer, and geologist. Life Thomas Spratt was born at Woodway House, East Teignmouth, the eldest son of Commander James Spratt (Royal Navy officer), Jam ...

and

Edward Forbes Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland ...

visited Kişla, an hour's ride from Korkuteli (referred to as Stenez), with extensive walls of soft stone and burnt brick, and identified it as the city of Isinda, which the Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, on his victorious march through Asia Minor in 189 BCE, found besieged by

Termessus Termessos (Greek Τερμησσός ''Termēssós''), also known as Termessos Major (Τερμησσός ἡ μείζων), was a Pisidian city built at an altitude of about 1000 metres at the south-west side of Solymos Mountain (modern Gül ...

. At the city's request he raised the siege and fined the Termessians 50 talents.T.A.B. Spratt and E. Forbes, ''Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis'' (van Voorst, 1847), pp. 246–247
/ref> Isinda stood in a strategic position at the western end of the pass leading from

Pamphylia Pamphylia (; , ''Pamphylía'' ) was a region in the south of Anatolia, Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (all in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey). It was bounded on the ...

by Termessus to Pisidia.''Mittheilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Institutes in Athen'' (1885), reprinted by London: Forgotten Books, 2013, p. 339–340 Samples of the extensive coinage of Isinda are extant, which give evidence that it considered itself an

Ionia Ionia ( ) was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who ...

n colony. Isinda was later included in the

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Pamphylia Secunda Pamphylia (; , ''Pamphylía'' ) was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (all in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey). It was bounded on the north by Pisidia and was the ...

. At an early stage, it became a

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, a

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of the

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Perge Perga or Perge (Hittite language, Hittite: ''Parha'', ''Perge'', ) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greeks, Greek city in Pamphylia. It was the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, now located in ...

, the capital of the province. Of its

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s, Cyrillus took part in the

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in 325, Edesius in the

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in 431, Marcellinus in the

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in 451, Talleleus in the

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in 553, Ignatius in the Photian

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. No longer a residential bishopric, Isinda is now listed by the

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as a

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.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 910

Bishops holding the title

Peter Augustine O'Neill Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

, O.S.B. (26 November 1909 - 6 November 1911) * Marcelin-Charles Marty (14 April 1919 - 3 February 1921) * Emanuel-Anatole-Raphaël Chaptal de Chanteloup (20 February 1922 - 27 May 1943) *

Leonardo José Rodriguez Ballón Leonardo or The Leonardo may refer to: Arts and entertainment * '' Leonardo Journal'', an arts journal * ''Leonardo'' (Italian magazine), a philosophy magazine published in Florence, Italy, in 1903–1907 * ''Leonardo'' (journal), published b ...

, O.F.M. (30 December 1943 - 6 July 1945) *

Leo Joseph Suenens Leo Jozef Suenens ( ) (16 July 1904 – 6 May 1996) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels from 1961 to 1979. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962. Suenens was a leading voice at the Second Vatican ...

(12 November 1945 - 24 November 1961)) * Joseph William Regan, M.M. (1 February 1962 - 24 October 1994)

References

Populated places in Pisidia Populated places in ancient Pamphylia Former populated places in Turkey Catholic titular sees in Asia Korkuteli District Archaeological sites in Antalya Province Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey {{Antalya-geo-stub