Polybotus orPolybotos (Greek:Πολύβοτος) was a city in theRoman province ofPhrygia Salutaris. Its site is located 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest ofBolvadin inAsiatic Turkey.[1][2]
This town is mentioned in the 6th century byHierocles in hisSynecdemus.[3]
Due to the wide-ranging grasslands, the area was used as a mustering place (e.g. possibly by emperorRomanos IV Diogenes)[4] and one of themetata (imperial stock-raising farm) was situated nearby between Polybotus,Dokimion andSynnada, though it was moved to Europe after theinvasion of the Turkmen in the eleventh century.[5] The city was sacked in 838 by retreating Arab troops under caliphAl-Mu'tasim according to thevita of John of Polybotus.[6]
The Turks first occupied Polybotus some time after thebattle of Manzikert, but it was reconquered in the aftermath of theFirst Crusade by emperorAlexios I Komnenos and his generalJohn Doukas as is recounted in theAlexiad.[7] The town became part of a contested area between theByzantine Empire and theSultanate of Rum, with neither being able to exert durable control in the early twelfth century until it finally was lost to the Seljuks later that century.[8]
The earliest GreekNotitia Episcopatuum of the 7th century places the see among the suffragans ofSynnada. After Amorium became a metropolitan see in the 9th century, Polybotus became a suffragan ofAmorium until its disappearance as a residential see.[9]
Le Quien mentions two bishops:[10]
At theSecond Council of Nicaea (787), the see was represented by the priest Gregory.
The bishopric is included in theCatholic Church's list oftitular sees.[11]
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