Town during the Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine era
Euaza, located in what is modern Turkey was atown during theHellenic,Roman andByzantine era. Thetown was in the upper portion of theCayster River valley, about 100 km east fromEphesus.The town also known as Augaza,[1] appears inNotitiea episcopatuum of the 9th century. The area is still mainlyagricultural.[2]
The exact site of Euaza is still unknown[3] save that it was in the upper reaches of theCayster River valley. Some speculation holds it in the area ofDioshieron andKolophốn,[4] and was probably in the region ofMount Tmolus.
Zgusta,[5] argues it was located at the city ofAlgizea in Caria, but being outside the provence of Asia makes this identification problematic.
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones called Evaza a "wretched little town"[6] based on the "case of Bassianos" who Jones feels wasbanished to this insignificant place in the hills behind Ephesus, the metropolis.[7][8]
The town was known as Euaza (Εὔαζα), Augaza (Αὔγαζα)[9] Eugaza and latter Theodosioupolis (Θεοδοσιούπολις).[10]
The Diocese of Euaza (Dioecesis Euazsensis) is a suppressed andtitular see of theRoman Catholic Church,[11] located in the ancient episcopal see of theRoman province ofAsia.[12] It was part of thePatriarchate of Constantinople and was suffragan of theArchdiocese of Ephesus .[13][14][15]
There are five known bishops of Euaza.[16]
Today Euaza survives astitular bishopric which so far has never been assigned.
- ^Richard J. A. Talbert,Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-by-map Directory (Princeton University Press, 2000)p856.
- ^AHRWEILER Hélène,Byzance : les pays et les territoires, Londres, 1976, Variorum Reprints, chapitre IV, p. 2.
- ^W. M. Ramsay,The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (Cambridge University Press, 2010)page 105.
- ^ZGUSTA Ladislav,Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen, Heidelberg, Winter, 1984 (Beiträge zur Namenforschung. N. F. Beihefte 21). p175.
- ^ZGUSTA Ladislav,Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen, Heidelberg, Winter, 1984 (Beiträge zur Namenforschung. N. F. Beihefte 21).
- ^JONES Arnold Hugh Martin,The later roman empire (284-602). A social economic and administrative survey, 2e éd., t. II, Oxford, 1973, Basil Clackwel, p. 1916.
- ^BATTIFOL Pierre, « L'Affaire Bassianos d'Ephèse », dansÉchos d'Orient, no 136, 1924, p. 386.
- ^CULERRIER Pascal, « Les évêchés suffragants d'Éphèse aux 5e-13e siècles »,Revue des études byzantines, t. XLV, année 1987, no 45, p. 161.
- ^Augaza is only used by theByzantinegrammarianHierocles in his synecdemus
- ^C. Foss, S. Mitchell, G. Reger,Augaza/Euaza/Theodosiopolis (Pleiades, 2012).
- ^EuazaArchived 2015-09-05 at theWayback Machine at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^Pius Bonifacius Gams,Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p.444.
- ^G. Bardy, v. Augaza, inDictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 373.
- ^Pascal Culerrier,Les Évêchés suffragants of Éphèse aux 5th to 13th siècles, (Revue des étudesByzantines, Vol45, 1987), pp.144 and 159.
- ^Johan Leemans, Peter Van Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Keough, Carla Nicolaye,Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity (Walter de Gruyter, 2011)p169.
- ^The Second Synod of Ephesus[permanent dead link] p23.
- ^Charles Vialart,Sacred Geography ( 1641)p316.
- ^ZGUSTA Ladislav,Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen, Heidelberg, Winter, 1984 (Beiträge zur Namenforschung. N. F. Beihefte 21). p109.
- ^See: Raymond Janin, v. 5. Bassien, inDictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, coll. 1274–1275.
- ^Michel Le Quien,Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Volume I, coll. 712].
- ^Richard Price, Michael Gaddis,The Acts of theCouncil of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p146.
- ^LE QUIEN Michael, « Theodosiopolis, Evaza, Eugaza », dansOriens Christianus, t. I, Paris, Akademische Druck – U. Verlagsanstalt (Graz), 1958.
