- Byllis
Byllis (Ancient Greek; "Βύλλις" or "Βουλλίς") was at first an
Illyrian settlement [Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992,ISBN 0631198075,Page 97,"... the Bylliones beyond the river Aous in the hinterland of Apollonia . Their hill-settlement developed later into the town of Byllis, at Gradisht on the right bank of the Aous. ..."] of the Bylliones. The settlement was refounded as city, now a Hellenic Byllis [An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation,ISBN-10: 0198140991,2005,page 1333,"refounded as a Hellenic Byllis not yet a polls in 400"] . Later on the population becameLatin speaking [Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992,ISBN 0631198075,,Page 273,"... Scodra and Dyrrhachium were seats of the metropolitans, and there were bishops at Lissus, Doclea, Lychnidus (Ohrid), Scampis, Apollonia, Amantia, Byllis and Aulona. The population of this area were Latin-speaking provincials , ..."] .It was situated west of
Avlona , on the coast, near the modern villageGradica , orGradiste , a Slav name substituted in later episcopal "Notitiae" for the old Illyrian name Byllis (Not. episc. III, 620; X, 702). Under the Romans, it was part of the province ofEpirus Nova .Hierocles (653, 4) knows only of Byllis. Felix, Bishop of Apollonia and Byllis, was present at theCouncil of Ephesus , in 431. At theCouncil of Chalcedon in 451, Eusebius subscribes simply as Bishop of Apollonia; on the other hand, Philocharis subscribes as Bishop of Byllis only in the letter of the bishops of Epirus Nova to the Byzantine Emperor Leo I in 458.In later years it retained only a titular bishop in the
Roman Catholic church , whose title is often added to that ofApollonia among thesuffragan s of the archbishopric ofDyrrachium .References
Bibliography
*Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992,ISBN 0631198075,
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092e.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article]External links
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Illyrians/?yguid=232262967 Illyria and Illyrians]
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