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298 IX. PHRYGIAN CITIES ON PISIDIAN FRONTIER.
Takineis therefore must have been subject to Apameia; and we have
seen in Ch. VI that this was the case also with Sanaos. In the fourth
century, then, the western part of the territory of Apameia, including
these two koinai, Sanaos and Takina, was separated from it and
made a Jcomopolis1 and bishopric. Afterwards the name Valentia
was given to the southern part, while the northern retained the name
Sanaos ; and the bishopric was designated sometimes by one name,
sometimes by the other. Some changes must have been made by
Valens (364-78) in the Jcomopolis; but the bishopric seems to have
existed as early as 325, when Paulus Sanabensis was present at the
Nicene Council2.
§ 8. The Asian Side op Lake Askania. We may further infer
from the milestone of Takina that the entire road to which it belonged
was included in the province Asia in 133 B. c, for Aquillius must
necessarily have built a Roman road on Roman soil. The cities whose
remains are found at and near Elyes and Kilij, therefore, must have
been in Asia at that time; and lake Askania must have formed the
boundary of the province. At a later date Augustus seems to have
attached them to Galatia, as they lay on the line of his military road
from Colonia Antiocheia to Coloniae Olbasa and Komama; but
Vespasian perhaps may have restored them to Asia. Their history
will be most conveniently touched on in App. II.
The brackish and bitter lake of Buldur is beyond a doubt the lake
Askania, along whose coast Alexander marched between Sagalassos
and Kelainai-Apameia3. There are two routes from Sagalassos to
Apameia; one leads across the top of the lofty ridge between Isbarta
and Aghlason (Sagalassos), but is impossible for an army. The other
keeps more to the west, descends on the shore of Buldur lake N.W.
from Buldur, and passes along the shore to Ketchi-Borlu and thence
to Apameia. Alexander took the latter route, as Prof. G. Hirschfeld
has rightly seen. In this lake, according to Arrian, salt congeals of
itself and is collected and used by the inhabitants. That excellent
traveller and observer Hamilton, I 494, remarks about Buldur lake,
that it is ' impossible that this can be the lake Askania mentioned by
' A Tcomopolis was an institution in to read Sunabensis : the Nicene lists
the Byzantine period, being a territory are very corrupt.
containing no polis but only villages; it 3 jfet £n\ &pvyias irapa rrjv Xi/xvrjv y ovopa
was administered not through any polis 'AvicavLa, iv rj SXts -nr\yvwTai avToparoi, Kat
but direct from the central government, tovtois xpavrai oi inixapioi.....Kal dcpiK-
having curiales of its own just as if it viirai is KfXmvas Trepnralos. Arrian Anab
had been a, polis. I 29, 1.
2 Unless, as is quite possible, we ought
Takineis therefore must have been subject to Apameia; and we have
seen in Ch. VI that this was the case also with Sanaos. In the fourth
century, then, the western part of the territory of Apameia, including
these two koinai, Sanaos and Takina, was separated from it and
made a Jcomopolis1 and bishopric. Afterwards the name Valentia
was given to the southern part, while the northern retained the name
Sanaos ; and the bishopric was designated sometimes by one name,
sometimes by the other. Some changes must have been made by
Valens (364-78) in the Jcomopolis; but the bishopric seems to have
existed as early as 325, when Paulus Sanabensis was present at the
Nicene Council2.
§ 8. The Asian Side op Lake Askania. We may further infer
from the milestone of Takina that the entire road to which it belonged
was included in the province Asia in 133 B. c, for Aquillius must
necessarily have built a Roman road on Roman soil. The cities whose
remains are found at and near Elyes and Kilij, therefore, must have
been in Asia at that time; and lake Askania must have formed the
boundary of the province. At a later date Augustus seems to have
attached them to Galatia, as they lay on the line of his military road
from Colonia Antiocheia to Coloniae Olbasa and Komama; but
Vespasian perhaps may have restored them to Asia. Their history
will be most conveniently touched on in App. II.
The brackish and bitter lake of Buldur is beyond a doubt the lake
Askania, along whose coast Alexander marched between Sagalassos
and Kelainai-Apameia3. There are two routes from Sagalassos to
Apameia; one leads across the top of the lofty ridge between Isbarta
and Aghlason (Sagalassos), but is impossible for an army. The other
keeps more to the west, descends on the shore of Buldur lake N.W.
from Buldur, and passes along the shore to Ketchi-Borlu and thence
to Apameia. Alexander took the latter route, as Prof. G. Hirschfeld
has rightly seen. In this lake, according to Arrian, salt congeals of
itself and is collected and used by the inhabitants. That excellent
traveller and observer Hamilton, I 494, remarks about Buldur lake,
that it is ' impossible that this can be the lake Askania mentioned by
' A Tcomopolis was an institution in to read Sunabensis : the Nicene lists
the Byzantine period, being a territory are very corrupt.
containing no polis but only villages; it 3 jfet £n\ &pvyias irapa rrjv Xi/xvrjv y ovopa
was administered not through any polis 'AvicavLa, iv rj SXts -nr\yvwTai avToparoi, Kat
but direct from the central government, tovtois xpavrai oi inixapioi.....Kal dcpiK-
having curiales of its own just as if it viirai is KfXmvas Trepnralos. Arrian Anab
had been a, polis. I 29, 1.
2 Unless, as is quite possible, we ought