Some refer to the town by the nameTitopolis, but a coin minted there in the time of EmperorHadrian bears on the reverse the word ΤΙΤΙΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ (Of the inhabitants of Titiopolis).[1][2] Other sources cited in the presentation about that coin to theRoyal Numismatic Society give the same form.[1] These concern the names of bishops of Titiopolis (considered below) and also the information given by theHieroclis Synecdemus, byGeorge of Cyprus, and byConstantine Porphyrogenitus, according to which Titiopolis was one of the cities of theIsaurian Decapolis.[1][3] The editors of theBarrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World conjecture that the old Isaurian bishopric (and, now, titular see) ofCardabunta orKardabounda may be identified with the town.[4]
The ruins of Titiopolis lie about 4 kilometres north-north-west ofAnamur.[5]
The see of Titiopolis is mentioned in the 6th centuryNotitia episcopatuum ofAntioch and, after Isauria was annexed to thePatriarchate of Constantinople in about 732, in theNotitia episcopatuum of that church and in that ofLeo the Wise in about 900 and that of Constantine Porphyrogenitus in about 940.[3]
The last mention of Titiopolis as a residential see is byWilliam of Tyre in the late 12th century. He speaks of it as one of the 24 suffragan sees ofSeleucia in Isauria.[1]
^Handbook of the Geography and Statistics of the Church, Volume 1 (Bosworth & Harrison, 1859)p461.
^Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two Sermons and Two Letters on the Nature and Necessity of Absolution, Volume 1 (H.G. Bohn, 1845)p404.
^Joseph Bingham, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, 2 Volumes (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 10 Feb. 2006)404.
^John D. Beetham The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. Nihil Obstat. 1910.
