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IKONION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Iconium (Ikonion: Eth. Ikonieus: Cogni, Kunjah, or Koniyeh), was regarded
in the time of Xenophon (Anab. i. 2. § 19) as the easternmost town of Phrygia,
while all later authorities describe it as the principal city of Lycaonia. (Cic.
ad Fam. iii. 6, 8, xv. 3.) Strabo (xii. p. 568) calls it a polichnion, whence
we must infer that it was then still a small place; but he adds that it was well
peopled, and was situated in a fertile district of Lycaonia. Pliny (v. 27), however,
and the Acts of the Apostles, describe it as a very populous city, inhabited by
Greeks and Jews. Hence it would appear that, within a short period, the place
had greatly risen in importance. In Pliny's time the territory of Iconium formed
a tetrarchy comprising 14 towns, of which Iconium was the capital. On coins belonging
to the reign of the emperor Gailienus, the town is called a Roman colony, which
was probably only an assumed title, as no author speaks of it as a colony. Under
the Byzantine emperors it was the metropolis of Lycaonia, and is frequently mentioned
(Hierocl. p. 675); but it was wrested from them first by the Saracens, and afterwards
by the Turks, who made it the capital of an empire, the sovereigns of which took
the title of Sultans of Iconium. Under the Turkish dominion, and during the period
of the Crusades, Iconium acquired its greatest celebrity. It is still a large
and populous town, and the residence of a pasha. The place contains some architectural
remains and inscriptions, but they appear almost all to belong to the Byzantine
period. (Comp. Amm. Marc. xiv. 2; Steph. B. s. v.; Ptol. v. 6. § 16; Leake, Asia
Minor, p. 48; Hamilton, Researches, vol. ii. p. 205, fol. ; Eckhel, vol. iii.
p. 31; Sestini, Geo. Num. p. 48.) The name Iconium led the ancients to derive
it from eikon, which gave rise to the fable that the city derived its name from
an image of Medusa, brought thither by Perseus (Eustath. ad Dionys. Per. 856)
; hence Stephanus B. maintains that the name ought to be spelt Eikonion, a form
actually adopted by Eustathius and the Byzantine writers, and also found on some
coins.
This text is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
LYSTRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Lystra (Lustra he, or ta), a town of Lycaonia or Isauria, which is
mentioned by Pliny (v. 42: Eth. Lystreni) and Ptolemy (v. 4. § 12), and repeatedly
in the New Testament History. (Acts, xiv. 8, 21; Timoth. iii. 11; comp. Hierocl.
p. 675.) A bishop of Lystra was present at the Council of Chalcedon. Leake (Asia
Minor, p. 102) is inclined to place the town at Khatoun Serai, about 30 miles
south of Iconium; but Hamilton (Researches, vol. ii. p. 313), with more appearance
of probability, identifies its site with the ruins of Kaadagh, which are generally
believed to be the remains of Derbe.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
IKONION (Ancient city) TURKEY
(Ikonion). The modern Koniyeh; the capital of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor, and when visited by St. Paul a flourishing city. During the Middle Ages it was of great importance in the history of the Crusades.
LYSTRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
(he Lustra). A city of Lycaonia, on the confines of Isauria, celebrated as one chief scene of the preaching of Paul and Barnabas.
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