Town in ancient Lycia
Mastaura (
Ancient Greek: Μάσταυρα) was a town in
ancient Lycia
[1] and is not to be confused with
Mastaura (Caria).
It may have been located at present-day Dereağzı, some 25 km northwest of
Myra,
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] which is therefore not to be confused with
Dereağzı, Nazilli or
Dereağzı, İncirliova.
Dereağzı had a large domed church made of brick,
[1] which may have been the cathedral of Mastaura.
[5]
Bishopric
The
bishopric of Mastaura in Lycia is mentioned in
Notitiae Episcopatuum of the 7th and 10th centuries as having first rank among the
suffragans of the
metropolitan see of Myra.
[6]
No bishop of the see is mentioned by name in extant documents, unless Baanes, who was at the
Photian
Council of Constantinople (879) was bishop not of
Mastaura in Asia but of Mastaura in Lycia.
[7]
No longer a residential bishopric, Mastaura in Lycia is today listed by the
Catholic Church as a
titular see.
[8]
References
- ^
a
b
c Joachim Henning (2007).
Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium. Vol. 2. Walter de Gruyter. p. 143.
ISBN
9783110183580. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
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^ Sencer Şahin, Mustafa Adak,
Stadiasmus Patarensis: Itinera Romana Provinciae Lyciae (Ege Yayınları 2007
ISBN
978-97-5807179-1), p. 261
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^ Mehmet Alkan,
"Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (8): On the named places in the journeys of sacrifice recorded in the Vita of Saint Nicholas of Holy Sion" in Gephyra, No. 8 (2011), pp. 99–124
-
^
"Tore Kjeilen, "Dereağzı"". Archived from
the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
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^ Henning (2007), p. 131
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^ Heinrich Gelzer,
Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901, p. 539, nº 254; e p. 554, nº 311.
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^ Pascal Culerrier,
Les évêchés suffragants d'Éphèse aux 5e-13e siècles, in Revue des études byzantines, vol. 45, 1987, p. 157
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^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1), p. 925
External links
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