Calynda
Calynda (also Calinda, Calydna, or Karynda; Ancient Greek: Κάλυνδα) was a city in ancient Caria.[1]
History
It was probably situated at the boundary of Lycia and Caria, for it is placed in the former territory by Ptolemy (xxxi, 16), in the latter by Stephanus Byzantius. Strabo places it 60 stadia from the sea, west of the Gulf of Glaucus, and east of Caunus. It appears, from a passage in Herodotus,[2] that the territory of Caunus bordered on that of Calynda.
Its king, Damasithymos, was an ally of Queen Artemisia I of Caria, and was at the Battle of Artemisium and the Battle of Salamis with a ship on the side of Xerxes.[3]
Calynda was afterwards, as it appears from Polybius, subject to Caunus; but having revolted from Caunus, it placed itself under the protection of the Rhodians.
Pliny writes its name Calydna.[4] It is mentioned among the cities that struck coins in the Roman period.
Its site is located near Kozpınar, Asiatic Turkey.[5][6]
Bishopric
The diocese is not mentioned in the Notitiae episcopatuum, but a 458 letter of the Lycian bishops to the Roman emperor Leo I about the death of Proterius of Alexandria mentions Bishop Leontius of Calynda. This implies that Calynda was at that time a suffragan of Myra, the metropolis of Lycia.[7][8]
No longer a residential bishopric, Calynda is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[9]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
A titular see of Asia Minor. It was probably situated at the boundary of Lycia and Caria (on the river Indos?), for it is placed in the former territory by Ptolemy (xxxi, 16), in the latter by Stephanus Byzantius (s.v.). Stephanus gives also another form of the name, Karynda. Calynda must be carefully distinguished from Kalydna, Kalydnos, Karyanda, and Kadyanda. Its king, Damasithemos, was an ally of Queen Artemisia (Herod., VIII, lxxxvii; Pliny, V, xxvii, who writes its name Calydna). It is mentioned among the cities that struck coins in the Roman period. Its Christian history is very short, for it is not mentioned in the "Notitiæ episcopatuum". We know only that it was at a certain time a suffragan of Myra, the metropolis of Lycia. Bishop Leontius of Calynda is mentioned in 458 (Mansi, Concil., VII, 580) in the letter of the Lycian bishops to the Emperor Leo.
Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geog. (London, 1878), I, 485.
References
- Back to citation "Calynda". Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Back to citation i. 172
- Back to citation Herodotus, VIII, lxxxvii.
- Back to citation V, xxvii.
- Back to citation Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
- Back to citation Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Back to citation Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 991-992
- Back to citation Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 450
- Back to citation Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 856