Neapolis (Ancient Greek: Νεάπολις) was a town in ancient Pisidia, a few miles south of Antioch.[1][2] Pliny mentions it as a town of the Roman province of Galatia, which embraced a portion of Pisidia.[3] It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains, under the name of Neapolis in Pisidia, a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[4]

Its site is located near the modern Kıyakdede, Asiatic Turkey.[5][6]

References

  1. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.44.
  2. Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 672.
  3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 5.42.
  4. Catholic Hierarchy
  5. Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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