Carallia (Ancient Greek: Καραλλία) was a city of the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is mentioned in the acts of the Council of Ephesus (431).[1] The same form of the name is given in the acts of the Council of Chalcedon (451).[2]
The 6th-century Synecdemus gives the name of this Pamphylian city as Καράλια (Caralia).[3]
William Smith took the Pamphylian Carallia to be identical with the town of Carallis (Κάραλλις, Καράλλεια) in Isauria, which he identified with a place in Turkey called Kereli.[4] The site of the Pamphylian town is supposed to be at Uskeles.[5]
Modern scholars place Carallia near Güney Kalesi in Asiatic Turkey.[6][7]
Extant documents give the names of three bishops of the ancient see of Carallia, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Side, the capital of the province:
No longer a residential see, Carallia is today included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[5] Catholic Bishops of the town have been
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Carallis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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