Εμφανίζονται 2 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Πληροφορίες για τον τόπο για το τοπωνύμιο: "ΣΕΡΡΕΣ Πόλη ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ".
Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia,
more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus, Sirae by Titus Livius. The
city is in Eastern Macedonia,
about forty-three miles northeast of Salonica
in the plain of Strymon,
on the last outposts of the mountains which bound it on the north-east.
The city possessed great strategic importance under the Byzantine
Empire in the wars against the Serviani and Bulgars. It was captured by the latter
in 1206 and recaptured by the Emperor John Dukas in 1245. Later the Servian, Kral
Stephen Dushan, captured it in turn, was crowned there im 1345, established a
Court on the model of that of Byzantium, and married the daughter of Andronicus
II.
The city carries on a brisk trade in textile and agricultural products.
At first Serrae was a suffragan of Thessalonica,
remaining so probably until the eighth century, when Eastern Illyricum was removed
from Roman jurisdiction and attached to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
At the end of the next century it had become a metropolitan see without suffragans,
and such is still its status for the Greeks.
S. Petrides, ed.
Transcribed by: Joseph E. O'Connor
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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