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Etenna (Ancient Greek:Ἔτεννα) was a city in the lateRoman province ofPamphylia Prima. Centuries earlier, it was reckoned as belonging toPisidia, as byPolybius, who wrote that in 218 BC, the people of Etenna "who live in the highlands of Pisidia aboveSide" provided 8,000hoplites to assist theSeleucid usurperAchaeus.[1][2]
There is no other mention of Etenna in extant documents until the record of the participation of bishops of Etenna in theecumenical councils of the 4th century AD and later. However, there are examples of its fine silver coinage of the 4th and 3rd century BC and of itsbronzecoins dating from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD.[3][4]
TheChristianbishopric of Etenna wasecclesiastically asuffragan of themetropolitan see ofSide, the capital of theprovince ofPamphylia Secunda. Known Bishops include:
Seeing Etenna as no longer a residentialbishopric, theCatholic Church lists it as atitular see,[8] although the area around Etenna was never actually ofCatholic confession. Among the titular bishops of Etenna were
The town and bishopric ofCotenna, also given as belonging to the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima, is by some reckoned to be the same as Etenna, but appears in theNotitiae Episcopatuum side by side with Etenna and distinct.[7][10]
On the basis of the preponderance of locally minted coins Etenna and the presence of potsherds of theClassical period in Greece, unusual inland elsewhere, Etenna has been identified with the rather undistinguished ruins on a steep hillslope 250–500 metres north of the modern village ofSirt, which lies north ofManavgat,Antalya Province,Turkey. They have not been systematically excavated, but include remains of city walls, a roofed reservoir, baths, two basilicas, a church and rock tombs.[3][4]
The identification of Etenna with Gölcük, near the modern village of Sarraçlı, further east beyond the river Melas, is considered less likely.[3][4]
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