Tabae or Tabai ( grc, Τάβαι) was a city in
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 t ...
, although, according to
Strabo it was located in a plain in
Phrygia on the boundaries of Caria. The place is now
Tavas, near
Kale, Denizli in
Turkey
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; some inscriptions and numerous ancient remains have been found.
Stephanus Byzantius mentions two cities of this name, one in
Lydia (which is conjectured to be
Tabala), the other in Caria.
Livy
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says that it was on the frontier of
Pisidia
Pisidia (; grc-gre, Πισιδία, ; tr, Pisidya) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Ant ...
towards the coast of the
Gulf of Pamphylia. The town in question, however, some coins of which are extant, was one which claimed to have been founded by one Tabus. Others derive its name from ''tabi'', which in Semitic languages means "good", and others from a native word ''taba'', meaning "rock", which seems a probable derivation.
History
In 189 BC, the consul
Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, having defeated the inhabitants who blocked his passage, exacted from Tabae a fine of 25
talents and 10,000
medimni of wheat.
Bishopric
Tabae was also the seat of a
diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
, a
suffragan of
Stauropolis.
Three bishops of Tabae are known:
*Rufinus, present at the
Council of Ephesus (431);
*Severus, at Constantinople (553);
*Basilius, at Nicæa (787).
The ''
Notitiae Episcopatuum The ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' (singular: ''Notitia Episcopatuum'') are official documents that furnish Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church.
In the Roman Church (the -mostly Lat ...
'' continue to mention the see among the suffragans of Stauropolis until the 13th century.
No longer a residential see, Tabae is included in the
Catholic Church
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's list of
titular see
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s.
[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 979]
References
;Attribution
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External links
''Catholic Hierarchy'' page
Populated places in ancient Caria
Populated places in Phrygia
Former populated places in Turkey
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
History of Denizli Province
Catholic titular sees in Asia
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