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Anazarbus
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A titular metropolitan see of Cilicia (Lesser Armenia), suffragan of Antioch, known also to the ancients as Nova Troas, to the crusaders as Naversa, and to the Arabs as Aïn-Zarba. Councils were held there in 431 and 435.
Sources
SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 139; LEQUIEN, Oriens Christ. (1740), III, 631-632.
Source Record
- Publication
- The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1907.
- Nihil Obstat
- Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
- Imprimatur
- Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.