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KLAVDIOPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Claudiopolis (Klaudiopolis). Ammianus (xiv. 25) mentions Seleucia
and Claudiopolis as cities of Cilicia, or of the country drained by the Calycadnus;
and Claudiopolis was a colony of Claudius Caesar It is described by Theophanes
as situated min a plain between the two Tauri, a description which exactly, corresponds
to the position of the basin of the Calycadnus. Claudiopolis may therefore be
represented by Mout, which is higher up the valley than Seleucia, and near the
junction of the northern and western branches of the Calycadnus. It is also the
place to which the pass over the northern Taurus leads from Laranda. (Leake, Asia
Minor, pp. 117, 319.) Pliny (v. 24) mentions a Claudiopolis of Cappadocia, and
Ptolemy (v. 7) has a Claudiopolis in Cataonia. Both these passages and those of
Ammianus and Theophanes are cited by Forbiger to prove that there is a Claudiopolis
in Cataonia, though it is manifest that the passage in Ammianus at least can only
apply to a town in the valley of the Calycadnus in Cilicia Trachea. The two Tauri
of Theophanes might mean the Taurus and Antitaurus. But Hierocles places Claudiopolis
in Isauria, a description which cannot apply to the Claudiopolis of Pliny and
Ptolemy.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A city of Cilicia Trachea, but assigned by Ammianus and Hierocles to Isauria. It was founded by Claudius, the Roman emperor, and was situated in a plain between two summits of Mount Taurus.
In a well-watered plain 80 km N-NW of Seleucea on the Kalykadnos.
Named for the emperor, who gave it colonial status, Claudiopolis was first a city
and later a bishopric. It was tentatively identified in 1800 with modern Mut by
Leake, who noted that "its chief streets and temples and other public buildings
may be easily distinguished, and long colonnades and porticos, with the lower
parts of the columns in their original places. Pillars of verd-antique, breccia
and other marbles, lie half buried in different parts. . . ." The city's
identity was confirmed from epigraphic evidence at the end of the 19th c.
Little remains of Claudiopolis, apart from reused building material
and inscriptions in Mut and in the walls of the 14th c. (Karamanoglu) castle at
the town's N limit. The theater, with fragments of seating and of the sculpture
and column drums of its scaena, may still be recognized to the W, and S of the
ancient ramparts (still visible in places as a low mound) is the necropolis with
numerous sculptured sarcophagi. Of the latter, one recording the city's name has
been removed for safekeeping to the precincts of Lal Pasha's mosque.
M. Gough, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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