Ariarathia

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It was founded by Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia (r. 220–163 BCE). It was detached from Cappadocia and assigned to the province of Armenia Minor when that province was established.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Strobel, Karl |entry=Ariarathia|title= Brill's New Pauly|doi=10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e134900}} The town had city rights.{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Getzel M. |title=The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor |date=2 November 1996 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-91408-7 |page=376 |url=https://www.google.es/books/edition/The_Hellenistic_Settlements_in_Europe_th/BnsPcZW4G7YC |access-date=11 November 2024 |language=en}} The town belonged to the so-called Armenian Hexapolis and remained under Byzantine control in the seventh century.{{sfn|Cooper|Decker|2012|p=263}} In lack of archaeological findings, it seems that the city vanished during the eighth or ninth century when the Muslim onslaught rendered the area between Caeserea and Melitene a no man's land.{{sfn|Cooper|Decker|2012|p=226}}

Its site is located near Pınarbaşı, Asiatic Turkey.{{Cite Barrington|64}}{{Cite DARE|21241}} While Ramsay identified it with the town of Tzamandos, this is incorrect as Tzamandos is 15 km west of Ariarathia.

It became the seat of a bishop and a certain Acacius of Ariarathia is known to have defended the view of Cyril against Theodoret and the eastern Bishops in the time of the Council of Ephesus, 449.{{cite book |last1=Menze |first1=Volker-Lorenz |title=Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire |date=2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-287133-6 |page=106 |url=https://www.google.es/books/edition/Patriarch_Dioscorus_of_Alexandria/P9mzEAAAQBAJ |access-date=11 November 2024 |language=en}} A No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3a82.html Catholic Hierarchy]

• Ariaramneia

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• {{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=Eric |last2=Decker |first2=Michael J. |title=Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia |date=24 July 2012 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-02964-5 |pages=17,25–28, 43 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Life_and_Society_in_Byzantine_Cappadocia/nGyQMmtzckAC |access-date=12 November 2024 |language=en}}

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