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17-471: Isaurian may refer to: anything of the region of Isauria or its people the Isaurian dynasty that ruled Byzantine Empire from 717 to 802 the Isaurian language Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Isaurian . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

34-728: A strongly fortified city at the foot of Mt. Taurus, was besieged by Perdiccas , the Macedonian regent after Alexander the Great 's death, the Isaurians set the place alight and let it perish in flames rather than submit to capture. When the Romans first encountered the Isaurians (early in the 1st century BC), they regarded Cilicia Trachea as part of Isauria, which thus extended to the Mediterranean Sea; and this extension of

51-444: A time under the rule of Amyntas, king of Galatia ; but it is evident that they continued to retain their predatory habits and virtual independence. In the 3rd century they sheltered the rebel emperor Trebellianus . In the early 4th century, all Cilicia was detached by order of Diocletian for administrative purposes from the northern slope of Taurus. A province called at first Isauria-Lycaonia, and later Isauria alone, extended up to

68-578: The Iconian plain; but Isauria began as soon as the foothills were reached. Its two original towns, Isaura Nea and Isaura Palaea , lay, one among these foothills (Doria) and the other on the watershed ( Zengibar Kalesi ), located at approximately 37°29′N 32°12′E near Bozkir. In the 4th century BC, Isauria was the wild district about Isaura Palaea and the heads of the Calycadnus . When the capital, Isaura (also known as Isaura Vetus or Isaura Palaea ),

85-464: The battle of Philippi in 42 BC. After the death of Deiotarus, Amyntas was made king of Cappadocia in 37 as a client ruler of Mark Antony . Plutarch enumerates him among the adherents of Mark Antony at Actium and is mentioned as deserting to Octavian , just before the battle. While pursuing his schemes of aggrandizement, and endeavoring to reduce the refractory highlanders around him, Amyntas made himself master of Homonada or Hoinona, and slew

102-408: The proconsul P. Servilius deemed it necessary to follow them into their rugged strongholds, and compel the whole people to submission, an exploit for which he received the title of Isauricus (75 BC). In the year AD 6, Cassius Dio mentions that the Isaurians were marauding through the province of Asia until they were faced with open war and were defeated. The Isaurians were afterwards placed for

119-716: The Diocese of Isaura Nova was early joined with that of Leontopolis, the more recent name of Isaura Palaea which is mentioned in all the "Notitiae". Amyntas of Galatia Amyntas ( Ancient Greek : Ἀμύντας ), Tetrarch of the Trocmi was a King of Galatia and of several adjacent countries between 36 and 25 BC, mentioned by Strabo as contemporary with himself. He was the son of Brogitarus , king of Galatia , and Adobogiona , daughter of king Deiotarus Philoromaeus . Amyntas seems to have first possessed Lycaonia , where he maintained more than 300 flocks. To this he added

136-498: The emperor's personal guard, the Excubitores . However, the population of Constantinople considered the Isaurians as barbarians, and emperor Anastasius I had to fight a long war against Isaurian rebels ( Isaurian War , 492–497). The ruins of Isaura Palaea are mainly remarkable for their fine situation, fortifications and tombs. Those of Isaura Nea have disappeared, but numerous inscriptions and many sculpture stelae, built into

153-430: The houses of Dorla , prove the site. It was the latter, and not the former town, that Servilius reduced by cutting off the water supply. J. R. S. Sterrett explored in the highland of Isauria in 1885 but it was not exhaustive. The site was identified by W. M. Ramsay in 1901. Ramsay discovered there more than fifty Greek inscriptions, the greater number Christian, as well as magnificent tombs. These monuments date from

170-412: The limits of Galatia, but not past Taurus on the south. Pisidia , part of which had hitherto been included in one province with Isauria, was also detached, and made to include Iconium; Isauria received the eastern part of Pamphylia . The coastal Metropolis of Seleucia was designated as Isauria's provincial capital. In the 4th century they were still described by Ammianus Marcellinus as the scourge of

187-413: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isaurian&oldid=1186127357 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Isauria It derives its name from the warlike Isaurian tribe and

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204-581: The name continued to be in common use for two centuries. The whole basin of the Calycadnus was reckoned Isaurian, and the cities in the valley of its southern branch formed what was known as the Isaurian Decapolis . The Isaurians were brought partially under control (76–75 BC) by the Romans. During the war of the Cilician and other pirates against Rome, the Isaurians took so active a part that

221-614: The neighbouring provinces of Asia Minor, with a major series of raids occurring from AD 404 to 409, including one campaign to eradicate them led by the Eastern Roman general Arbazacius , but they were said to have been effectually subdued in the reign of Justinian I . Some Byzantine emperors were of Isaurian descent: Zeno , whose native name was Tarasicodissa Rousoumbladadiotes; his son, Leo II ; and perhaps Leontius , who reigned from 695 to 698. The empire used Isaurians as soldiers, generals and at one point they even formed part of

238-519: The prince of that place; but his death was avenged by his widow, and Amyntas fell a victim in 25 to an ambush which she laid for him. On his death Galatia became a Roman province. Amyntas was the father of Artemidoros of the Trocmi , a Galatian nobleman, who married a princess of the Tectosagi , the daughter of Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii . They were the parents of Gaius Julius Severus,

255-541: The territory of Derbe by the murder of its prince, Antipater of Derbe , the friend of Cicero , and Isaura and Cappadocia by Roman favour. Originally he had been the king of Cappadocia Deiotarus secretary ( γραμματεύς ), and was made by Amyntas commander in chief ( στρατηγός ) of the Galatian auxiliaries sent to help Brutus and Cassius against the Triumvires , but deserted to Mark Anthony just before

272-636: The third, fourth, and fifth centuries. It is argued that Paul evangelised in Claudiopolis , the only Roman colony in the region by that time. The Isaurian church was originally under the authority of the Patriarch of Antioch , but was attached to the Patriarch of Constantinople in the late 7th or early 8th century. Because Aetius, fl 451. is called in inscriptions bishop of Isauropolis and Isaura Palaea and as no Notitia episcopatuum makes mention of Isaura, or Isauropolis, Ramsay supposes that

289-504: The twin settlements Isaura Palaea (Ἰσαυρα Παλαιά, Latin: Isaura Vetus 'Old Isaura') and Isaura Nea (Ἰσαυρα Νέα, Latin: Isaura Nova 'New Isaura'). The Isaurians were fiercely independent mountain people who marauded and created havoc in neighboring districts under Macedonian and Roman occupations. The permanent nucleus of Isauria was north of the Taurus range which lies directly south of Iconium and Lystra . Lycaonia had all

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