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Attalia

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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Attalia, also Attalia, a titular metropolitan see of Pamphylia in Asia Minor: Its episcopal list (431-879) is given in Gams (450). It is probably identical with the present Adalia, the chief port and largest place on the southern coast of Asia Minor. Remains of sculptured marbles are abundant in the vicinity. It is mentioned in Acts, xiv, 24-25, as the seaport whence Paul and Barnabas set sail for Antioch, at the close of their missionary journey through Pisidia and Pamphylia. Another city of the same name existed in Lydia, Asia Minor; its episcopal list (431-879) is given in Gams (447).

Lequien, Oriens Christ. (1740), I, 1030; Smrrn, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., 1, 320-321.

Thomas J. Shahan.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907. Public domain.

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