Domitiopolis
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Domitiopolis is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Isauria in Asia Minor (modern Asian Turkey).
The former name of this city is unknown; it was called Domitiopolis or Dometioupolis after L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (Ramsay, in Revue numismatique, 1894, 168 sqq.). Ptolemy (V, vii, 5) places it in Cilicia; according to Constantine Porphyrogenitus (De themat., I, 15) it was one of the ten cities of the Isaurian Decapolis (cf. Georgius Cyprius, ed. Gelzer, 852).
It figures in Parthey's "Notitiæ episcopatuum", I and III, and in Gelzer's "Nova Tactica", 1618, as a suffragan of Seleucia. Lequien (Oriens christ., II, 1023) mentions five bishops, from 451 to 879.
Domitiopolis became in Turkish Dindebol, a village on the Ermenek Su, in the the Ottoman vilayet of Adana (cf. Sterrett, in Papers of the American School, Athens, III, 80).
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