Synnada

Ancient city in Phrygia Salutaris (part of Eastern Phrygia, or Parorea). According to tradition Synnada have been founded by Acamas who went to Phrygia after the Trojan with some Macedonian colonists. Excavations prooved that the town was established during the Hittite period. During Hellenistic period Synnada belonged to the kingdom of the Attalids. In 189 BC Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso passed through that city on his expeditions against the Galatians.   Christianity was introduced into Synnada very early and according to the Martyrologium Hieronymianum  was strong what reuslted in many martyrdoms¹Synnada remains a Roman Catholic Titular metropolis.

See:

1. Eusebius, Church History VI.19
2. Peter Thonemann, The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium, Cambridge University Press 2011, diff.
3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
4. Synnada-http://catholicencyclopedia.newadvent.com/cathen/14387a.htm
5. Synnada, http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/s/Sinnada.htm
6. T. Drew-Bear, 1996, Map 62 Phrygia, http://assets.press.princeton.edu/B_ATLAS/BATL062_.pdf

Bronverwijzingen

1. ↑ For whenever persons able to instruct the brethren are found, they are exhorted by the holy bishops to preach to the people. Thus in Laranda, Euelpis by Neon; and in Iconium, Paulinus by Celsus; and in Synada, Theodorus by Atticus, our blessed brethren. And probably this has been done in other places unknown to us.