Paltus

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Paltus may also refer to a Russian Kilo class submarine
Paltus
Paltus is located in Syria
Paltus
Shown within Syria
LocationSyria
RegionLatakia Governorate
Coordinates35°16′02″N 35°55′32″E / 35.2672°N 35.9256°E / 35.2672; 35.9256

Paltus or Paltos (Greek: Πάλτος) is a ruined city. It was also a bishopric, a suffragan of Seleucia Pieria in the Roman province of Syria Prima,[1] that, no longer being a residential see, is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[2] The ruins of Paltus may be seen at Belde (Arab al-Mulk) at the south of Nahr al-Sin or Nahr al-Melek, the ancient Badan.

The town was founded by a colony from Arvad or Aradus (Arrianus, Anab. II, xiii, 17). It is located in Syria by Pliny the Elder (Hist. Natur., V, xviii) and Ptolemy (V, xiv, 2); Strabo (XV, iii, 2; XVI, ii, 12) places it near the river Badan. When the province of Theodorias was established by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, Paltus became a part of it (Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani, ed. Heinrich Gelzer, 45).

From the sixth century according to the Notitia episcopatuum of Anastasius it was an autocephalous archdiocese and depended on the patriarch of Antioch. In the tenth century it still existed and its precise limits are known .

Le Quien (Oriens christianus, II, 799) mentions five of its bishops:

References

  1. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Paltus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013; ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 949

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