Pythia - ܦܬܝܐ
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“Joh. Eph., EH 2.46, mentions that the Kathara monastery given to a group of expelled miaphysite monks from Cappadocia was close to the therms of Pythia in Bithynia. This was a very popular spa resort for people from Constantinople, including the imperial court, throughout the Byzantine period.” 4
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- Lat. 40.60388° Long. 29.223869°5
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“Joh. Eph., EH 2.46, mentions that the Kathara monastery given to a group of expelled miaphysite monks from Cappadocia was close to the therms of Pythia in Bithynia. This was a very popular spa resort for people from Constantinople, including the imperial court, throughout the Byzantine period.” 4
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- 1 Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)., p: 1760.
- 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 112, chapter: 3.2.46.
- 3 Raymond Janin, Les Eglises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Paris: Institut français d'Etudes byzantines, 1975)., p: 99.
- 4 Raymond Janin, Les Eglises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Paris: Institut français d'Etudes byzantines, 1975)., p: 99-101.
- 5 https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511390
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