Pythia - ܦܬܝܐ
http://syriaca.org/place/5633
"Joh. Eph., EH 2.46, mentions that the Kathara monastery given to a group of expelled miaphysite monks from Cappadocia was close to the therms of Pythia in Bithynia. This was a very popular spa resort for people from Constantinople, including the imperial court, throughout the Byzantine period."4
Place Type
settlement
Location
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- Lat. 40.60388° Long. 29.223869°5
Status: draft
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- 1 Alexander P. Kazhdan, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526, p: 1760.
- 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 112chapter: 3.2.46.
- 3 Raymond Janin, Les Eglises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Paris: Institut français d’Etudes byzantines, 1975), p: 99.
- 4 Raymond Janin, Les Eglises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Paris: Institut français d’Etudes byzantines, 1975), p: 99-101.
- 5 Roger Bagnall et al., Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511390