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and

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times. In Hellenic times it had a

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, under its king Elagabalus. It was the see of a Christian

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. Lequien, names only two known bishops of the town. Constantius (fl 431 - 451) and Evander No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a

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of the

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as well as the

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(for which it is now a metropolitan titular see, with

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as its metropolitan). Its site is located near

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in Asiatic Turkey.

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