Attuda
{{Short description|Hellenistic city in ancient Caria}}
Attuda or Attouda ({{langx|grc|Ἄττουδα}}) was a Hellenistic city in ancient Caria and later in the Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana. There are coins of the place with the Greek epigraph Ἱερὰ Βουλὴ Ἀττουδέων, of the time of Augustus and later. The coins show that the Men Carus was worshipped there.[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=attuda-geo Attuda, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) William Smith, LLD, Ed.]
Its site was at present-day Hisarköy, Sarayköy District, Denizli Province, Turkey.[http://www.adiyamanli.org/travel/index.php?showtopic=90 DENİZLİ MUSEUM - Travelers' Stories About Turkey]{{Cite Barrington|65}}{{Cite DARE|21177}}
Bishopric
It became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan at first of the metropolitan see of Laodicea in Phrygia, but later, after the division of the Roman province, of the see of Hierapolis.
The names of five of its bishops are recorded in extant documents. Hermelaus or Hermolaus was at the Council of Ephesus in 431. At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Metropolitan Nunechius of Laodicea signed on behalf of Symmachus of Attuda. Stephanus was at the Trullan Council of 692. Nicetas and Arsenius, presumably of the rival parties of Patriarch Photius I and Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, were at the Council of Constantinople (879).Michel Lequien, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0agp0mJFG_sC Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus], Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 825-826M. Th. Disdier, v. Attyda, in [http://booksnow2.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/4/dictionnairedhis05bauduoft/dictionnairedhis05bauduoft.pdf Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques], vol. V, 1931, coll. 196-197
No longer a residential bishopric, Attuda is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 842
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Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia
Category:Populated places in ancient Caria
Category:Former populated places in Turkey
Category:Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Category:Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
Category:History of Denizli Province