Homana, also known asHomona andHomonanda,[1] was a town ofancient Pisidia and later ofIsauria andLycaonia, inhabited inHellenistic andRoman times.[2]Pliny the Elder puts the town in Pisidia.[3] It appears in theSynecdemus as part of Lycaonia under the nameUmanada orOumanada (Ancient Greek:Οὐμανάδα).[4] It was the capital of theHomanadeis (Ὁμαναδεῖς), who, besides Homana, are said byTacitus to have possessed 44 forts,[5] a statement opposed to the remarks ofStrabo, according to which the Homanades, the most barbarous of all Pisidian tribes, dwelt on the northern slope of the highest mountains without any towns or villages, living only in caves.[6] In the reign of Augustus, the consulQuirinius compelled this little tribe, by famine, to surrender, and distributed 4000 of them as colonists among the neighbouring towns. It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains, under the name of Homona, atitular see of theCatholic Church.[7]
Its site is located southwest ofLake Trogitis,Seydişehir,Konya Province,Turkey.[2][8]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Homana".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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