Sozopolis, Pisidia
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Sozopolis in Pisidia
Pisidia
Pisidia was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Lycia, and bordering Caria, Lydia, Phrygia and Pamphylia. It corresponds roughly to the modern-day province of Antalya in Turkey...

, called Apollonia during Seleucid times, was an ancient town in the region of Pisidia, now in the Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

n part of Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. It is not to be confused with the Thracian Sozopolis
Sozopol
Sozopol is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for the Apollonia art and film festival that is named after one of the town's ancient names.The busiest times of the year...

 in present-day Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

.

Sozopolis is noted for being the birthplace of Severus of Antioch
Severus of Antioch
Severus, Patriarch of Antioch , born approximately 465 in Sozopolis in Pisidia, was by birth and education a pagan, who was baptized in the "precinct of the divine martyr Leontius" at Tripoli, Lebanon.- Life :...

 (born approximately 465
465
Year 465 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hermenericus and Basiliscus...

). http://www.orthodoxunity.org/article02.html Sozopolis is a titular see
Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....

 of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

.http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3s52.html The icon
Icon
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 of the Theotokos
Theotokos
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 of Pisidian Sozopolis has its origins with the city, and is celebrated by Eastern Orthodox Christians on September 3. See September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Sep. 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 4All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Sep. 16 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Hieromartyr Anthimus of Nicomedia, Bishop of Nicomedia...

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Sozopolis sent its bishop
Bishop
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 and possibly two other representatives to the Council of Constantinople
First Council of Constantinople
The First Council of Constantinople is recognized as the Second Ecumenical Council by the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox, the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholics, the Old Catholics, and a number of other Western Christian groups. It was the first Ecumenical Council held in...

 in 381
381
Year 381 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Syagrius and Eucherius...

, and its bishop attended the First Council of Ephesus in 431
431
Year 431 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Bassus and Antiochus...

. https://people.creighton.edu/~pam44013/Index.htm,http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10489b.htm

Some scholars locate the ruins of Sozopolis at Souzon, http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-08/footnote/fn58.htm or at Uluborlu
Uluborlu
Uluborlu is a town and district of Isparta Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The population is 6,385 as of 2010.-External links:* *...

http://yalvac.ispartanet.com/?syf=2, but neither site has been excavated and the identifications can only be deemed tentative.

Fragments of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Res Gestae Divi Augusti, is the funerary inscription of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, giving a first-person record of his life and accomplishments. The Res Gestae is especially significant because it gives an insight into the image Augustus portrayed to the Roman people...

in Greek have been found in the area.
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