Isaurian Decapolis

Location of Isauria in Asia Minor

The Isaurian Decapolis was a group of ten cities (Greek: Δεκάπολις) in ancient and medieval Isauria.[1] According to the De Thematibus of the 10th-century Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, the Decapolis comprised the inland portions of Isauria, with the cities of Germanicopolis, Titiopolis, Dometiopolis, Zenopolis, Neapolis, Claudiopolis, Irenopolis, Diocaesarea, Lauzadus and Dalisandus.


References

  1. ↑ W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor(Cambridge University Press, 2010 )p366.

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