:''Paltus may also refer to a Russian

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'' Paltus or Paltos ( el, Πάλτος) is a ruined city. It was also a bishopric, a

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Seleucia Pieria Seleucia in Pieria (Greek Σελεύκεια ἐν Πιερίᾳ), also known in English as Seleucia by the Sea, and later named Suedia, was a Hellenistic town, the seaport of Antioch ad Orontes (Syria Prima), the Seleucid capital, modern Antaky ...

in the

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Syria Prima Syria I or Syria Prima ("First Syria", in el, Πρώτη Συρία, ''Prṓtē Suríā'') was a Byzantine province, formed c. 415 out of Syria Coele. The province survived until the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 630s. History Syria I emerged ...

, that, no longer being a residential see, is included in the

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's list of

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s.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 949 The ruins of Paltus may be seen at

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(''Arab al-Mulk'') at the south of Nahr al-Sin or Nahr al-Melek, the ancient Badan. The town was founded by a colony from

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(Hist. Natur., V, xviii) and

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(V, xiv, 2);

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(XV, iii, 2; XVI, ii, 12) places it near the river Badan. When the province of Theodorias was established by the Byzantine emperor

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, Paltus became a part of it (''

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'', ed.

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, 45). From the sixth century according to the ''

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'' of Anastasius �chos d'Orient, X, (1907), 144it was an

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and depended on the

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. In the tenth century it still existed and its precise limits are known �chos d'Orient, X (1907), 97

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(''Oriens christianus'', II, 799) mentions five of its bishops: *Cymatius, friend of

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, and Patricius, his successor *Severus (381) *Sabbas at the

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in 451 AD *John, exiled by the

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and reinstated by

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in 518.

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