Tralles (diocese)

This article is about the episcopal see. For the city, see Aydın.
Tralles in Asia
City
Ruins at Tralles
Ruins at Tralles
Tralles in Asia is located in Turkey
Tralles in Asia
Tralles in Asia
Coordinates: 37°50′53″N 27°50′43″E / 37.84806°N 27.84528°E / 37.84806; 27.84528

Tralles (Ancient Greek:Τράλλεις) was a colonia (town) of the Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine empires, later known as Andronicopolis (Άνδρονικούπολις). Tralles was sacked by the Turks in 1284,[1][2][3] but remains today a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. A new Turkish city, Aydın, was built in its place.

  1. ^ Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century (University of California Press, 1971), p. 251.
  2. ^ Nicol, Donald MacGillivray (1993), The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453, Cambridge University Press, p. 86, ISBN 978-0-521-43991-6.
  3. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, p. 1284, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.