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SYNNADA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Synnada (Sunnada: Eth. Sunadeus), a town of Phrygia Salutaris, at
the extremity of a plain about 60 stadia in length, and covered with olive plantations.
It is first noticed during the march of the consul Manlius against the Gallograeci
(Liv. xxxviii. 15, xlv. 34); and Cicero (ad Att. v. 20; comp. ad Fam. iii. 8.
xv. 4) mentions that he passed through Synnada on his way from Ephesus to Cilicia.
In Strabo's time (xii. p. 577) it was still a small town, but when Pliny wrote
(v. 29) it was an important place, being the conventus juridicus for the whole
of the surrounding country. It was very celebrated among the Romans for a beautiful
kind of marble furnished by the neighbouring quarries, and which was commonly
called Synnadic marble, though it came properly from a place in the neighbourhood,
Docimia, whence it was more correctly called Docimites lapis. This marble was
of a light colour, interspersed with purple spots and veins. (Strab. l. c.; Plin.
xxxv. 1; Stat. Silv. i. 5. 36; Comp. Steph. B. s. v.; Ptol. v. 2. § 24; Martial,
ix. 76; Symmach. ii. 246.) There still are appearances of extensive quarries between
Kosru-Khan and Bulwudun, which Col. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 36) is inclined to identify
with those of Synnada or Docimia. Remains of the town of Synnada still exist under
the name Eski-kara-hissar about 3 miles to the north-west of these quarries, where
they were discovered by Texier. Earlier travellers imagined they had found them
at Surmina or Surmeneh, or in the plain of Sandakleh. (Comp. Hamilton, Researches,
i. p. 466, ii. 177; Journal of the R. Geogr. Society, vii. p. 58, viii. p. 144;
Eckhel, Doctr. Num. iii. p. 172; Sestini, Num. Vet. p. 127.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(ta Sunnada), also Synnas. A city in the north of Phrygia Salutaris, at first inconsiderable, but afterwards a place of much importance, and from the time of Constantine the capital of Phrygia Salutaris.
KIDYESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
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