Alia was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited in Roman and Byzantine times. [1] It was located in the Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana, whose capital was Laodicea on the Lycus, and became the seat of a bishop. The names of some of the bishops of Alia are known through their participation in church councils: Caius at the Council of Chalcedon (451), Glaucus at the Second Council of Constantinople (553), Leo at the Second Council of Nicaea (787), and Michael and Georgius, the one a supporter of Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, the other a supporter of Photius, at the Council of Constantinople (879). [2] [3]
No longer a residential bishopric, Alia is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see. [4] [5]
Some authorities locate the town at Islamköy, now known as Banaz; [6] others identify a place near Asar, [1] [7] both of which are in Asiatic Turkey.
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