Appia (Phrygia)

Appia (Ancient Greek: Ἀππία) was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited during Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times.[1] According to Pliny the Elder, it belonged to the conventus of Synnada.[2] It became the seat of a bishop in the ecclesiastical province of Phrygia Pacatiana; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[3]

Its site is located near Pınarcık in Asiatic Turkey.[1][4]

References
  1. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62, and directory notes accompanying.
  2. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 5.29.
  3. Catholic Hierarchy
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Appia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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