Alia was a town ofancient Phrygia, inhabited inRoman andByzantine times.[1] It was located in theRoman province ofPhrygia Pacatiana, whose capital wasLaodicea on the Lycus, and became the seat of a bishop. The names of some of the bishops of Alia are known through their participation in church councils: Caius at theCouncil of Chalcedon (451), Glaucus at theSecond Council of Constantinople (553), Leo at theSecond Council of Nicaea (787), and Michael and Georgius, the one a supporter ofPatriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, the other a supporter ofPhotius, at theCouncil of Constantinople (879).[2][3]
No longer a residential bishopric, Alia is today listed by theCatholic Church as atitular see.[4][5]
Some authorities locate the town at Islamköy, now known asBanaz;[6] others identify a place nearAsar,[1][7] both of which are inAsiatic Turkey.
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