Psibela
{{Short description|Town of ancient Lycaonia}}
Psibela was a town of ancient Lycaonia, inhabited in Roman and Byzantine times. It was renamed Verinopolis at some point between 457 and 479.{{Cite book|last=Jones|first=Arnold Hugh Martin|title=The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces|edition=2|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=137|year=1971|isbn=9780198142812|oclc=185408033|lccn=74025037|author-link=A. H. M. Jones}} It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3p23.html Catholic Hierarchy]
Its site is unlocated, although Sir William Ramsay suggests a similarity with Sibyla, which is located in modern Yıldızköy.{{Cite book|last=Ramsay|first=William Mitchell|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0sZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA344|title=The Historical Geography of Asia Minor|publisher=John Murray|year=1890|location=London|pages=344–345|chapter=Lykaonia and Tyanitis|lccn=unk82041708|author-link=William Mitchell Ramsay}}
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Category:Populated places in ancient Lycaonia
Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia
Category:Former populated places in Turkey
Category:Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Category:Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
Category:Lost ancient cities and towns
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