Ancyra (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Thomas Shahan · 1913
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Today's Angora is the ancient Ancyra, a titular see of Galatia in Asia Minor, suffragan to Laodicea. Legend credits Midas with its founding, and about 277 before Christ it became a chief place of the Gallic conquerors of Asia Minor. Under the empire it grew into a centre of great trade. Gams gives its episcopal list, and that of a second Ancyra in Phrygia Pacatiana.
Ancyra's fame rests above all on the Monumentum Ancyranum, the official record of the Acts of Augustus, cut in marble on an ancient temple's walls. Scholars have copied and edited it several times since the sixteenth century. Its ruins still yield valuable bas-reliefs, inscriptions, and other building fragments, keeping the city rich ground for students of the ancient world.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thomas Shahan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 0 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |