Stadia ( grc, Στάδια) was a town of
ancient Caria
Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the ...
.
[ It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a ]titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
of the Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
.
Its site is located near Datça
Datça is a district of Muğla Province in south-west Turkey, and the center town of the district. The center is situated midway through the peninsula which carries the same name as the district and the town ( Datça Peninsula). It was a nahiya of ...
, Asiatic Turkey.
References
Populated places in ancient Caria
Former populated places in Turkey
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
History of Muğla Province
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