Ilistra
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.198, 33.027
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Lycaonia in modern-day Turkey
History
Ilistra was a town of ancient Lycaonia, inhabited in Roman and Byzantine times. It was on the road from Laranda to Isaura, which is still in existence. Ilistra became a seat of a bishop; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.