Aurokra

Aurokra or Aurokla or Aurocla or Aulokra[1] was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.[2] It became a bishopric; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains, under the name Aurocla, a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[3]

Its site is located above Dort Köy near Doğancık in Asiatic Turkey.[2][4]

References
  1. William Mitchell Ramsay (1897). The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia. pp. 480–482.
  2. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62, and directory notes accompanying.
  3. Catholic Hierarchy
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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