Justinianopolis (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Siméon Vailhé · 1913
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Description
Justinianopolis was a titular see of Armenia Prima, better known in history as Acilizene or Keltzene. Its province lay between the Euphrates and the Antitaurus mountains, where Mithridates once took refuge from Pompey. Strabo, Procopius, and Ptolemy all mention the region. Its ancient capital, Eliza, is the modern Erzindjan, and the see was already archiepiscopal in 980, with as many as twenty-one suffragans.
Later it sank again to a simple metropolitan see without suffragans, lasting in that rank until the fourteenth century. Lequien lists six of its bishops between the fifth and eleventh centuries. An earthquake destroyed Erzindjan in 1784, and the rebuilt town served as headquarters for the Turkish army's fourth and principal corps. Its 30,000 inhabitants included nearly 10,000 Armenians and a few hundred schismatic Greeks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Siméon Vailhé |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |