Telmessos

Telmessos

:"This article is about Telmessos in Lycia (modern Fethiye), not to be confused with Telmessos in Caria."

Telmessos (or Telmessus), later Anastasiopolis, then Makri/Macre was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border, and is sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria. The well-protected harbor of Telmessos is separated from the Gulf of Telmessos by an island.

The modern town of Fethiye is located on its site.

History

Telmessos (or incorrectly "Telmissis") was a flourishing city west of Lycia, on the Gulf of Fethiye. It was famed for its school of diviners, consulted among others by the Lydian king Croesus, prior to declaring war against Cyrus, and by Alexander the Great, when he came to the town after the siege of Halicarnassus.

Telmessos was a member of the Delian League in the 5th century BC. It was taken by Alexander in 334 BC.

Telmessos was renamed Anastasiopolis in the 8th century, apparently in honour of Emperor Anastasios II, but this name did not persist.

By the 10th century, it came to be called Makri, after the name of the island at the entrance to the harbor.

Its ruins are located at Fethiye.

Church history

Le Quien ("Oriens christianus", I, 971) mentions two bishops of Telmessus: Hilary (370) and Zenodotus, at the Council of Chalcedon (451). The latter is called "Bishop of the Metropolis of Telmessaei and the Isle of Macra". The "Notitiae episcopatuum" mentions Telmessus among the suffragans of Myra until the tenth century, when it is no longer called Macra; in 1316 mention is made of the See of "Macra and Lybysium". Lybysium or Levissi, about four miles south-west of Makri, had in Ottoman days 3000 inhabitants, nearly all Greeks (Orthodox).

Under the name 'Telmessus', it is a Roman Catholic titular bishopric in the former Roman province of Lycia, suffragan of Myra.

ee also

*Aristander of Telmessus, seer to Alexander the Great

ources

*CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14478c.htm|title=Telmessus
* [http://www.archaeology-classic.com/turkey/Telmessos.html Archaeological World]
* Clive Foss, "The Lycian Coast in the Byzantine Age", "Dumbarton Oaks Papers" 48:1-52 (1994). [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0070-7546%281994%2948%3C1%3ATLCITB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I at JSTOR]


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