Zenopolis ( el, Ζηνούπολις) was an

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and

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city and

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variously placed in

Lycia Lycia (Lycian language, Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; el, Λυκία, ; tr, Likya) was a state or nationality that flourished in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean ...

or in neighbouring

Pamphylia Pamphylia (; grc, Παμφυλία, ''Pamphylía'') was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (all in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey). It was bounded on the north by ...

. At the

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(553), one bishop signed as "Gennadius by the mercy of God bishop of the Zenopolitans, a city of the province of

". The acts of the

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(787), on the other hand. bear the signature of Σταυράκιος ἐπίσκοπος Ζηνοπόλεως (Stauracius bishop of Zenopolis), who sat with the bishops of

. In about 940, the ''Notitia Episcopatuum'' of

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listed a Zenopolis in Pamphylia. In his ''Origines Ecclesiasticae'',

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gave Zenopolis as the name of two distinct cities, one in Lycia, the other in Pamphylia, and indicates that the Pamphylian see was also called Diciozanabrus.

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interpreted the references instead as concerning a single city that could be viewed as part of either of the two contiguous provinces of Lycia and Pamphylia. Vailhé does not distinguish between any of the cities that bore the name, but writes as if all were identical with the one in Isauria.Siméon Vailhé, "Zenonopolis" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1912)
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's list of

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s includes the see as Zenopolis in Lycia.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 1012

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