Amasia (Amasea) is a Catholic titular see. Corresponding to modern Amasya (Amasiah), it was a metropolis of Pontus in Asia Minor on the River Iris.
History
Its episcopal list dates from the third century[1]. It was the birthplace of the geographer Strabo, who left a striking description of his native city, in a deep and extensive gorge over which rose abruptly a lofty rock, "steep on all sides and descending abruptly to the river". It was famous in antiquity for its rock-cisterns, reached by galleries, of which some traces remain; also for the tombs of the ancient kings of Pontus hewn in the solid rock.
References
- Lequien, Oriens Christianus (1740), I, 521-532
- Van Lennep, Travels in Asia Minor (London, 1870), I, 86-106
Notes
- ^ Gams I, 442.
External links
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
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