Trocmades or Trocmada was a city in the

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of Galatia Secunda. It appears to have been on the site of the modern Turkish village of

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, about twenty-four miles east of

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History

The city is known from ecclesiastical records; no geographer or historian mentions a city of this name; Hierocles' Synecdemus (698, 1) gives "regio Trocnades", instead of Ρηγετνοκνάδα, referring, doubtless, to the Galatian name of some tribe on the left bank of the

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. Some writers have associated the name of Trocmades with the Galatian tribe of the

Trocmi The Trocmii or Trocmi were one of the three ancient tribes of Galatia in central Asia Minor, together with the Tolistobogii and Tectosages,Livy, xxxviii. 16 part of the possible Gallic group who moved from Macedonia into Asia Minor Anatolia ...

and even with the

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name of Togarmah, mentioned in , , and and .

Ecclesiastical history

All the ''Notitiae episcopatuum'' up to the 13th century mention among the

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s of

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the see Τροκμάδων, meaning "of Trocmades" or "of Trocmada"; the two most recent (13th century) call it Λωτίνου; perhaps it should be Πλωτίνου, meaning "of (Saint) Plotinus", venerated there.

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, who gives the name of the see as Trocmada (neuter plural), mentions the following bishops: *Cyriacus, who represented his

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at the

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(449), and was represented by a priest at the

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(451) *Theodore, present at the Council of Constantinople (681) *Leo, at the

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(787) *Constantine at the Council of Constantinople (879-880). Cyriacus, said to have assisted at the

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(325), is not mentioned in the authentic lists of bishops present at that council. The see of Trocmades is included in the

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's list of

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s.''Annuario Pontifico 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 997

References

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