Hyrcanis (Lydia)

{{Short description|Ancient city in Asia Minor}}

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Hyrcanis or Hyrkaneis, also known as Hyrcania ({{langx|grc|Ὑρκανία}}), was a Roman and Byzantine-era cityRuth Lindner, Mythos und Identität: Studien zur Selbstdarstellung kleinasiatischer Städte in der römischen Kaiserzeit (Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994) p128. and bishopric in ancient Lydia, now in western Turkey. It was situated in the Hyrcanian plain (τὸ Ὑρκάνιον πεδίον), which is said to have derived its name from a colony of Hyrcanians being settled here by the Persians.{{Cite Strabo|xiii. p.629}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Ὑρκανία}} They were afterwards mingled with some Macedonians, who also settled in this district, whence they are called by Pliny the Elder and Tacitus "Macedones Hyrcani."{{Cite Pliny|5.29.31}}{{Cite Tacitus|Annales|2.47}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0935.htm|title = Titular See of Hyrcanis, Turkiye}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2h55.html|title = Hyrcanis (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]}} The city minted its own coins.[http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/lydia/hyrkanis/i.html Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Hyrkanis].[http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=469 Hyrkaneis] at Asia Minor Coins .

Its site is located west of Halit Paşa in Asiatic Turkey,{{Cite Barrington|56}}{{Cite DARE|29050}} south of Çamlıyurt.

The city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric. Known bishops include:

• Asyncritus
• John, attendee at First Council of Constantinople
• Eustathius
• Dionysius fl.1157Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus [https://books.google.com/books?id=6IUaOOT1G3UC&q=Bagis&pg=RA2-PA157 p887].