Madenşehri (literally “city of mines”) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

in the central district (

Karaman Karaman, historically known as Laranda (Greek: Λάρανδα), is a city in south central Turkey, located in Central Anatolia, north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the capital district of the Karaman Province. According t ...

) of

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. It is situated on the northern slopes of Karadağ, an extinct volcano, and is north of the town of Karaman. The population of the village was 289 as of 2010.

History

Like some other Karadağ locations, Madenşehri has many early- Christian ruins. It occupies the site of the ancient city of Barata in the

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Lycaonia Lycaonia (; el, Λυκαονία, ''Lykaonia''; tr, Likaonya) was a large region in the interior of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), north of the Taurus Mountains. It was bounded on the east by Cappadocia, on the north by Galatia, on the west by ...

. It became the seat of a

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, a suffragan of Iconium, the capital of the province. The names of five of its early

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s are known. Stephanus participated in the

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in 325. Eugenius was bishop in 451, and the metropolitan bishop of Iconium Onesiphorus signed the acts of the

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on his behalf. Martyrius was at a synod in Constantinople in 536. Constantinus attended the

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in 680 and signed the acts also on behalf of his metropolitan Paulus. He also attended the

Trullan Council The Quinisext Council (Latin: ''Concilium Quinisextum''; Koine Greek: , ''Penthékti Sýnodos''), i.e. the Fifth-Sixth Council, often called the Council ''in Trullo'', Trullan Council, or the Penthekte Synod, was a church council held in 692 at ...

of 692. Georgius was at the Photian

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. No longer a residential bishopric, Barata is today listed by the

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as a

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.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 846

Place of interest

Binbirkilise Binbirkilise (literally: Thousand and One Churches) is a region in the antique Lycaonia, in modern Karaman Province of Turkey, known for its around fifty Byzantine church ruins. The region is located on the northern slopes of the volcano Kara ...

, church ruins from the

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period.

References

External links

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Villages in Karaman Central District Lycaonia {{Karaman-geo-stub