Dometiopolis

Dometiopolis (Ancient Greek: Δομετιούπολις) was a city of Cilicia Trachea,^[1] and in the later Roman province of Isauria^[2] in Asia Minor. Its ruins are found in the village of Katranlı (formerly Dindebul), Ermenek, Karaman Province, Turkey.^[3]

History

The city, whose previous name is unknown, was named Dometiopolis (Greek: Δομετιούπολις) after Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC). According to Constantine Porphyrogenitus, it was one of the ten cities of the Isaurian Decapolis.^[4][5]

Episcopal see

The episcopal see of Dometiopolis is mentioned in Gustav Parthey's Notitiæ episcopatuum, I and III, and in Heinrich Gelzer's Nova Tactica, 1618, as a suffragan of Seleucia. Lequien (Oriens Christianus II, 1023) mentions five bishops, from 451 to 879.

It remains a titular see of the Catholic Church,^[6] sometimes under the spelling "Domitiopolis".^[5]