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Mamistra

Roman bridge in Misis-Mopsuestia over the Pyramus River [aka Ceyhan River]

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Names
Transliterated Name Source Name
Yakapınar, Yüreğir Modern Turkish
Mamista, Manistra, Mampsista Byzantine Greek
Mopsuestia, Mopsuhestia Greek Μοψουεστία and Μόψου ἑστία
Mopsou Greek Μόψου
Greek Μόψου πόλις
Greek Μόψος
al-Maṣṣīṣah Arabic
Msis, Mises, Missis, Messis, Mam(u)estia Armenian
Introduction
Mopsuestia from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites



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Notes and Further Reading
References

References from Wikipedia

  1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Mopsuestia
  2. Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Mopsuestia
  3. Vailhé, Siméon (1911). "Mopsuestia" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10.
  4. Normand Robert, La Cilicia. In: Annals of Geography. 1920, vol. 29, No. 162. p.p. 426-451
  5. Missis and its Roman bridge
  6. GREEK ANTHOLOGY, § 9.698
  7. Procopius, On Buildings, §5.5.1
  8. Jump up to: a b Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, § M459.1
  9. Eusebius, Chronography, 97-98
  10. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 933
  11. Jump up to: a b Edwards, Robert W. (1987). The Fortifications of Armenian Cilicia: Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXIII. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. pp. 198–200, 284. ISBN 0-88402-163-7.
  12. Edwards, Robert W., "Mopsuestia" (2016). The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology, ed., Paul Corby Finney. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-8028-9017-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. Langlois, V. (1861). Voyage dans la Cilicie et dans les montagnes du Taurus, exécuté pendant les années 1852-1853. Paris. p. 451.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. Missis and its Roman bridge
  15. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, §6.234b

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Mopsuestia



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Yakapınar, Yüreğir