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19-753: The first settlement here was the ancient city of Nysa in Asia (on the Maeander) , founded in the Hellenistic period and continuing to thrive under the Ancient Romans , also as bishopric, where the geographer Strabo was educated. Nysa is 3 km from the modern town of Sultanhisar, which was founded by the Seljuk Turks in 1270 and brought into the Ottoman Empire in 1425. Sultanhisar

38-729: A suffragan of its provincial capital's metropolitan Archdiocese of Ephesus , I the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople . Of the Byzantine bishops of Nysa in Asia, several are historically documented: The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Nysa in Asia (Latin) / Nisa di Asia (Curiate Italian) / Nysæus in Asia (Latin adjective), of the Episcopal (lowest) rank, but it remains vacant, never having had an incumbent. There are important ruins on

57-412: A publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William , ed. (1854–1857). "Nysa". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray. Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium ( Latin : Stephanus Byzantinus ; ‹See Tfd› Greek : Στέφανος Βυζάντιος , Stéphanos Byzántios ; fl.  6th century   AD) was a Byzantine grammarian and

76-735: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nysa in Asia Nysa on the Maeander ( Greek : Νύσα or Νύσσα ) was an ancient city and bishopric of Asia Minor , whose remains are in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province of Turkey , 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the Ionian city of Ephesus , and which remains a Latin Catholic titular see . At one time it was reckoned as belonging to Caria or Lydia , but under

95-469: Is a vast work, with sometimes hundreds of list entries under each letter of the greek alphabet: Α – Ω . Even as an epitome, the Ethnica is of enormous value for geographical, mythological , and religious information about ancient Greece . Nearly every article in the epitome contains a reference to some ancient writer, as an authority for the name of the place. From the surviving fragments, we see that

114-582: Is an agricultural district in the Büyük Menderes valley. The main products of the area are typical of the Aegean region: olives, figs, citrus fruits, grapes, strawberries etc. and the local industry is the processing of these products: olive oil pressing, spinning cotton, preparing and packing fruit, especially figs. Sultanhisar itself is a small town of 6,000 people on the İzmir - Afyon railway line. The local cuisine features typical Aegean dishes such as

133-506: Is therefore partially damaged, has a capacity of 30,000 people. The bouleuterion (municipal senate), later adapted as an odeon , with 12 rows of seats, offers room for up to 600-700 people. Other significant structures include the agora , gymnasion and the Roman baths. The 100 m long Nysa Bridge , a tunnel-like substructure, was the second largest of its kind in antiquity. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

152-526: The Roman Empire it was within the province of Asia , which had Ephesus for capital, and the bishop of Nysa was thus a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Ephesus. Nysa was situated on the southern slope of mount Messogis, on the north of the Maeander , and about midway between Tralles and Antioch on the Maeander . The mountain torrent Eudon , a tributary of the Maeander, flowed through

171-565: The author of an important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica ( Ἐθνικά ). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epitome is extant, compiled by one Hermolaus , not otherwise identified. Nothing is known about the life of Stephanus, except that he was a Greek grammarian who was active in Constantinople , and lived after the time of Arcadius and Honorius , and before that of Justinian II . Later writers provide no information about him, but they do note that

190-572: The bread-pancakes called gözleme . The town has a horticultural school of Adnan Menderes University . Atça is a well-planned and tidy town, with 7,600 people larger than Sultanhisar itself. One of Turkey's largest strawberry growing districts. There is an annual strawberry harvest festival. There are 18 neighbourhoods in Sultanhisar District: This geographical article about a location in Aydın Province , Turkey

209-508: The geographer himself, when a youth, attended the lectures of Aristodemus , a disciple of Panaetius and grandson of the famous Posidonius , whose influence is manifest in Strabo's Geography . Another Aristodemus of Nysa, a cousin of the former, had been the instructor of Pompey . Nysa was then a centre of study that specialized in Homeric literature and the interpretation of epics. Nysa

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228-527: The god of wine was born or raised in Nysa or Nyssa, a name that was consequently given to many towns in all parts of the world associated with cultivation of grapes. The name "Nysa" is mentioned in Homer 's Iliad (Book 6.132-133), which refers to a hero named Lycurgus, "who once drove the nursing mothers of wine-crazed Dionysus over the sacred mountains of Nysa". The town derived its name of Nysa from Nysa, one of

247-730: The latter includes a passage from the comic poet Alexis on the Seven Largest Islands . Another respectable fragment, from the article Δύμη to the end of Δ , exists in a manuscript of the Fonds Coislin , the library formed by Pierre Séguier . The first modern printed edition of the work was published by the Aldine Press in Venice in 1502. The complete standard edition is still that of August Meineke (1849, reprinted at Graz, 1958), and by convention, references to

266-546: The middle of the town by a deep ravine spanned by a bridge, connecting the two parts of the town. Tradition assigned the foundation of the place to three brothers, Athymbrus (Ἀθυμβρός), Athymbradus (Ἀθύμβραδος), and Hydrelus (Ὕδρηλος), who emigrated from Sparta , and founded three towns on the north of the Maeander; but in the course of time Nysa absorbed them all; the Nysaeans, however, recognise more especially Athymbrus as their founder. In Greek mythology , Dionysus ,

285-664: The original contained considerable quotations from ancient authors, besides many interesting particulars, topographical, historical, mythological, and others. Stephanus cites Artemidorus , Polybius , Aelius Herodianus , Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Strabo and other writers. He is the only writer to cite a lost work attributed to Sophaenetus . The chief fragments remaining of the original work are preserved by Constantine Porphyrogennetos in De Administrando Imperio , ch. 23 (the article Ίβηρίαι δύο ) and De thematibus , ii. 10 (an account of Sicily );

304-611: The site from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The well-preserved theatre, built during the Roman Imperial period, is famous for its friezes depicting the life of Dionysus , god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine. It has a capacity 12,000 people. The library dating from the 2nd century A.D. is considered to be Turkey's second-best preserved ancient library structure after the "Celsus Library" of Ephesus . The stadium of Nysa, which suffered from floods and

323-537: The wives of Antiochus I Soter , who reigned from 281 to 261 BC and founded the city on the site of an earlier town called Athymbra (Ἄθυμβρα), a name that continued in use until the second half of the 3rd century BC, but not in the earliest coinage of Nysa, which is of the next century. According to Stephanus of Byzantium , the town also bore the name Pythopolis (Πυθόπολις). Nysa appears to have been distinguished for its cultivation of literature, for Strabo mentions several eminent philosophers and rhetoricians; and

342-636: The work was later reduced to an epitome by a certain Hermolaus, who dedicated his epitome to Justinian; whether the first or second emperor of that name is meant is disputed, but it seems probable that Stephanus flourished in Byzantium in the earlier part of the sixth century AD, under Justinian I . Stephanos' work, originally written in Greek , takes the form of an alphabetical dictionary or encyclopedia of geographical toponymns , ethnonymns etc. It

361-702: Was ruled by the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire , the Roman Empire , its continuation the Byzantine Empire , and by the Turks, until its final abandonment after being sacked by Tamerlane in 1402. The coins of Nysa are very numerous, and exhibit a series of Roman emperors from Augustus to Gallienus . Hierocles classes Nysa among the sees of Asia, and its bishops are mentioned in the Councils of Ephesus and Constantinople. Nysa became

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