Isinda (Ancient Greek:Ἴσινδα) orIsionda (Ancient Greek:Ἰσιόνδα) was a town ofancient Pisidia.
Its site is located nearKorkuteli,Asiatic Turkey.[1][2] More precisely, the site is now thought to be at the village of Kişla, though formerly identified withYazır.[3] In the 1840s,Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt andEdward Forbes visited Kişla, an hour's ride from Korkuteli (referred to as Stenez), with extensive walls of soft stone and burnt brick, and identified it as the city of Isinda, which the Roman consulGnaeus Manlius Vulso, on his victorious march through Asia Minor in 189 BCE, found besieged byTermessus. At the city's request he raised the siege and fined the Termessians 50 talents.[3][4]
Isinda stood in a strategic position at the western end of the pass leading fromPamphylia by Termessus to Pisidia.[5] Samples of the extensive[5] coinage of Isinda are extant, which give evidence that it considered itself anIonian colony.[3]
Isinda was later included in theRoman province ofPamphylia Secunda. At an early stage, it became aChristianbishopric, asuffragan of themetropolitan see ofPerge, the capital of the province. Of itsbishops, Cyrillus took part in theFirst Council of Nicaea in 325, Edesius in theCouncil of Ephesus in 431, Marcellinus in theCouncil of Chalcedon in 451, Talleleus in theSecond Council of Constantinople in 553, Ignatius in thePhotianCouncil of Constantinople (879).[6][7][8]
No longer a residential bishopric, Isinda is now listed by theCatholic Church as atitular see.[9]
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