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Ceretapa

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
37.494, 29.926
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: Ceretapa or Keretapa, also called Diocaesarea or Diocaesareia or Diokaisareia (Διοκαισάρεια), was a Graeco-Roman town of Phrygia Pacatiana.

History

Ceretapa or Keretapa, also called Diocaesarea or Diocaesareia or Diokaisareia (Διοκαισάρεια), was a Graeco-Roman town of Phrygia Pacatiana. It minted coins bearing the demonym Κερεταπεύς. The coins also show that there was near it a river or fountain Aulindenus. It was a bishopric with Silvanus representing the city at the Council of Ephesus, 431. No longer the seat a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

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