Delkos
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.338, 28.677
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Thrace in modern-day Turkey
History
Delkos, or Delcus, was a town of ancient Thrace. Under the name of Delcus it was a bishopric and later a titular see, now suppressed, of the Roman Catholic Church. It was later called Derkos, under which name it again was a bishopric and later a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The Orthodox diocese remains extant.