The exact site of Euaza is still unknown[3] save that it was in the upper reaches of the
Cayster River valley. Some speculation holds it in the area of
Dioshieron and
Kolophốn,[4] and was probably in the region of
Mount Tmolus.
Zgusta,[5] argues it was located at the city of
Algizea in Caria, but being outside the provence of Asia makes this identification problematic.
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones called Evaza a "wretched little town"[6] based on the "case of Bassianos" who Jones feels was banished to this insignificant place in the hills behind Ephesus, the metropolis.[7][8]
Name
The town was known as Euaza (Εύάξα), Augaza (Aύγαξα)[9] Eugaza and latter Theodosioupolis (Θεοδοσιούπολις).[10]
Eutropio attended the Council of Ephesus of 431 .[17][18]
Bassett was elected bishop, probably after the death of Eutropius, but refused to take possession of the office; then he intrigued to become
archbishop of Ephesus, a post from which he was deposed during the
Council of Chalcedon.[19]
^AHRWEILER Hélène, Byzance : les pays et les territoires, Londres, 1976, Variorum Reprints, chapitre IV, p. 2.
^W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
page 105.
^ZGUSTA Ladislav, Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen, Heidelberg, Winter, 1984 (Beiträge zur Namenforschung. N. F. Beihefte 21). p175.
^ZGUSTA Ladislav, Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen, Heidelberg, Winter, 1984 (Beiträge zur Namenforschung. N. F. Beihefte 21).
^JONES Arnold Hugh Martin, The later roman empire (284-602). A social economic and administrative survey, 2e éd., t. II, Oxford, 1973, Basil Clackwel, p. 1916.
^BATTIFOL Pierre, « L'Affaire Bassianos d'Ephèse », dans Échos d'Orient, no 136, 1924, p. 386.
^CULERRIER Pascal, « Les évêchés suffragants d'Éphèse aux 5e-13e siècles », Revue des études byzantines, t. XLV, année 1987, no 45, p. 161.