36°22′12″N30°16′21″E / 36.3699°N 30.2724°E /36.3699; 30.2724Corydala orCorydalla orKorydalla orKorydala (Ancient Greek:Κορύδαλλα) was a city ofancient Lycia. Anciently, it belonged to theRhodians, according toHecataeus, quoted byStephanus.[1] But it was not in Rhodes, nor was it one of the Rhodian possessions in thePeraea,Caria.[2] TheTabula Peutingeriana marks Corydala (speltCoridallo) on the road fromPhaselis toPatara, and makes the distance between these two places 29Roman miles (43 km; 27 mi)Pliny places Corydalla in the interior of Lycia,[3] andPtolemy mentions it withSagalassus,Rhodia,Phellus,Myra, and other places, as aboutMons Massicytus.
There are coins of Corydala of the imperial period, with the epigraph Κορυδαλλεων.
At an early stage, Corydala became the seat of a Christian bishop, asuffragan of themetropolitan see ofMyra, the capital of theRoman province of Lycia. In a letter toAmphilochius of Iconium, SaintBasil the Great mentions Bishop Alexander of Corydala as a champion of orthodoxy. Bishop Solon took part in theCouncil of Ephesus in 431. Palladius was a signatory of the letter that the bishops of Lycia sent in 458 toByzantine EmperorLeo I the Thracian with regard to the murder ofProterius of Alexandria. Leo or Leontius was the name of a bishop of the see who was at theSecond Council of Nicaea in 787.Le Quien, but not Janin, mention also a Eustrathius as a participant in thePhotianCouncil of Constantinople (879).[4][5][6]
No longer a residentialbishopric, Corydala is today listed by theCatholic Church as atitular see.[7]Harold William Henry was one of the titular bishops of the see.
The present site is a village calledHacıveliler nearKumluca, on the east side of a small stream, about 16 miles (26 km), direct distance, south-west of Phaselis.[8] There was discovered, in an old wall, a squared block, with its inscribed face turned towards the stones, on which, in beautifully preserved letters, was the name of the city—Corydalla. There are at Corydala the remains of a small theatre, of a Roman aqueduct, and a massive Hellenic wall. The inscription copied from Corydala[9] is of the time ofM. Aurelius Antoninus; and it shows that Corydala had the usual Greek constitution, a senate and a popular body. Pliny mentionsGagae, Corydala, andRhodiopolis, in this order; and Rhodiopolis was found by Spratt and Forbes near Corydala.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Corydalla".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
Authority control databases: Geographic |
|---|