Isaura Nova - Isaura Nea was a town of the Roman and Byzantine periods. It was also named Leontopolis. Isaura Nova was the successor settlement to Isaura Palaea and so called in juxtaposition with1.
sources:
- The Geography of Strabo published in Vol. V of the Loeb Classical Library edition,1928. xii. p. 568
- Ramsay, A. Margaret. The Early Christian Art of Isaura Nova. 1904., https://zenodo.ups.edu.ec/Record/zen-1693093/Description
References
- ↑To Lycaonia belongs also Isauricê, near the Taurus itself, which has the two Isauras, villages bearing the same name, one of which is called Old Isaura, and the other New Isaura, which is well-fortified. Numerous other villages were subject to these, and they were all settlements of robbers. They were a source of much trouble to the Romans and in particular to Publius Servilius, surnamed Isauricus, with whom I was acquainted; he subjected these places to the Romans 569 and also destroyed most of the strongholds of the pirates that were situated on the sea