The Isaurian Decapolis was a group of ten cities ( el, Δεκάπολις) in ancient and medieval
Isauria.
[W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor(Cambridge University Press, 2010]
p366
According to the ''
De Thematibus'' of the 10th-century
Byzantine emperor
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Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe K ...
, the Decapolis comprised the inland portions of Isauria, with the cities of
Germanicopolis,
Titiopolis
Titiopolis or Titioupolis ( el, Τιτιούπολις) was a town of ancient Cilicia and later in the Roman province of Isauria.
Name and location
Some refer to the town by the name Titopolis, but a coin minted there in the time of Emperor H ...
,
Dometiopolis
Dometiopolis ( grc, Δομετιούπολις) was a city of Cilicia Trachea, and in the later Roman province of Isauria in Asia Minor. Its ruins are found in the village of Katranlı, formerly Dindebul.
History
The city, whose previous name ...
,
Zenopolis,
Neapolis,
Claudiopolis,
Irenopolis,
Diocaesarea
Sepphoris (; grc, Σέπφωρις, Séphōris), called Tzipori in Hebrew ( he, צִפּוֹרִי, Tzipori),Palmer (1881), p115/ref> and known in Arabic as Saffuriya ( ar, صفورية, Ṣaffūriya) since the 7th century, is an archaeolog ...
,
Lauzadus
Lauzadus or Lauzadeai was a town of ancient Cilicia or of Isauria, inhabited in Byzantine times. It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church ...
and
Dalisandus.
References
Isauria
Historical regions in Turkey
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