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Anchialus

ANCHIALE

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Also known as: Greek: Anchialos; Latin: Ulpia

ANCHIALUS. - City of Thrace on the Black Sea, today in Bulgaria, already mentioned by Strabo (Geographia, VII, 6, 1), Pliny (Hist. Nat., IV, 44), Ovid (Tristia I, 9, 36) and by Ammianus Marcellinus (XXVII, 4, 12).

Called Ulpia under Trajan. Christianity was established there quite early, for in the 2nd century we find there a bishop by the name of Sotas, presented by Eusebius (Hist. eccl., V, 19) as an opponent of Montanism. Around 630, A. was an autocephalous archbishopric, directly dependent on Constantinople, and it remained so until the 14th century.

Having later become a metropolis, until the first decade of the 20th century it still depended, although situated in Bulgaria, on the patriarchate of Constantinople.

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BIBL.: J. Kleinsorge, De civitatum Graecarum in Ponti Euxii ora occidentali utarum rebus, Halle 1888; S. Valibé, s. v. in DHG, II, coll. 1511-13.

Mario Scaduto

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 1167–1168.

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Scaduto, Mario. “Anchiale.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1167–1168. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/anchiale.

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Scaduto, Mario. “Anchiale.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1167–1168. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/anchiale.

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@incollection{ec1_anchiale,
  author    = {Scaduto, Mario},
  title     = {Anchiale},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1167--1168},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/anchiale}
}

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