Eudocias ( grc, Εὐδοκιάς) or Eudocia ( grc, Εὐδοκία) was an ancient town in the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, in the neighbourhood of Termessus. According to William Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' (1854), the ''

Synecdemus The ''Synecdemus'' or ''Synekdemos'' ( el, Συνέκδημος) is a geographic text, attributed to Hierocles, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of their cities. The work is dated to the reign o ...

'' of Hierocles mentions four towns in Asia Minor, including one in Pamphylia, called Eudocia (Εὐδοκία), but other scholars report the ''Synecdemus'' as calling the Pamphylian town Eudocias. Le Quien says the ''Synecdemus'' spoke of the Pamphylian town as Eudoxias but himself, in line with other sources, uses the form "Eudocias". Parthey's 1866 edition of the ''Synecdemus'' gives the name of the Pamphylian town as Eudocia, but notes that the earlier editions of Wesseling (1735) and Bekker (1840) gave the name as Eudocias. In recent studies, "Eudocias" is the form of the name given by George E. Bean, and by Hülya Yalçınsoy and Süleyman Atalay. The original name of the town seems to have been Anydros. It was rebuilt in the 5th century and renamed Eudocias in honour of

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Aelia Eudocia, the wife of Theodosius II, and under this name is mentioned in the ''Synecdemus''. Bishop Timotheus of Termessus and Eudocias took part in the

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in 431 and Bishop Sabinianus of Termessus, Eudocias and Iobia in a synod held in Constantinople in 448. But in 458, the

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s of the metropolitan see of

Perge Perga or Perge ( Hittite: ''Parha'', el, Πέργη ''Perge'', tr, Perge) was originally an ancient Lycian settlement that later became a Greek city in Pamphylia. It was the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, now located in ...

(the capital of Pamphylia Secunda) who signed a joint letter to the Byzantine Emperor regarding the murder of Proterius of Alexandria included both Auxentius of Termessus and Innocentius of Eudocias, showing that Eudocias had by then become a distinct

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. From then on Eudocias and Termessus appear as separate sees in the '' Notitiae Episcopatuum'' even as late as the 10th century.Frank Kolb (editor), ''Chora und Polis''
(Oldenbourg Verlag 2004 ), pp. 104–105 Other sources too give the names of these bishops of Eudocias, adding to them Callistus (or Calixtus), who took part in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.Pius Bonifacius Gams
''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''
Leipzig 1931, pp. 450–451 No longer a residential bishopric, Eudocias is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see. Its site is tentatively located near Evdirhan in Asiatic Turkey.

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