Marcianopolis, or Marcianople (Devnya in modern Bulgaria), is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Lower Moesia, on the right bank of the Danube
History
The city was so renamed by Emperor Trajan after his sister Marciana (Amm. Devnya (Девня is a town in Varna Province, located in northeastern Bulgaria 25 km west of Varna. The state of Bulgaria (България transliterated bg-Latn ''Balgaria'' The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name language and alphabet of the First Bulgarian A titular see in the Roman Catholic Church is a Diocese or Archdiocese that now exists in title only In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin provincia, pl provinciae) was the basic and until the Tetrarchy (circa Moesia (Μοισία Moisía; Мизия Miziya; Moesia Мезија Mezija) was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the The Danube (In Donau from earlier Danuvius, Celtic *dānu, meaning "to flow run" Slovak and Polish Dunaj Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan ( September 18 53 &ndash August 9 117) was a Roman Emperor who Marcellinus, XXVII, 2) and previously known as Parthenopolis. Romans repulsed a Goth attack to this town in 267 (or 268), during the reign of Gallienus (Historia Augusta, Claudius, 9; Zosimus, I, 42); Valens made it his winter quarters in 368 and succeeding years (Amm. The Goths ( Gothic: Gothic usvg|14px|u]]Gothic asvg|14px|a]]Gothic s Events By Place Roman Empire The Goths launch one of the first major barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire. Events By Place Roman Empire September - Gallienus, aided by Aurelian, defeats the Goths at the Battle Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (218-268 ruled the Roman Empire as co-emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260 and then as the sole Roman Emperor The Augustan History ( Lat Historia Augusta) is a late Roman collection of biographies in Latin of the Roman Emperors their junior Zosimus ( ''fl'' 490s-510s was a Byzantine historian who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius This article is about the Roman Emperor For other people called Valens see Valens Flavius Julius Valens ( Latin: DOMINVS Marcell. , XXVII, 5; Theophanes the Confessor Chronographia, A. Saint Theophanes Confessor (c 758/760 &ndash March 12, 817/818 was a Byzantine aristocratic Ascetic monk and Chronicler He is venerated M. 5859, 5860, 5861). In 587 it was sacked by the king of the Avars but at once retaken by the Romans (Theophanes the Confessor, "Chronographia" A. M. 6079). The Roman army quartered there in 596 before crossing the Danube to assault the Avars (op. cit. , A. M. 6088).
Ecclesiastical history
Marcianopolis was the home of many saints or martyrs, e. g. St. Melitena, whose liturgical feast is kept on 15 September and whose remains were carried to Lemnos; St. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Alexander, martyred under Maximianus, and whose feast is kept on 2 February; Saints Maximus, Theodotus and Asclepiodotus, martyred at Adrianople under Maximianus, and whose feast is kept on 15 September, were born at Marcianopolis. Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Herculius (c 250 &ndash c
The "Ecthesis" of the pseudo-Epiphanius (c. 640) gives the Metropolitical See of Marcianopolis in the Balkans five suffragans (Heinrich Gelzer, "Ungedruckte . A suffragan bishop is a Bishop subordinate to a Metropolitan bishop or Diocesan bishop. . . Texte der Notitiae Episcopatuum" 542). The Notitia Episcopatuum of the Armenian cleric, Basil (c. The Notitiae Episcopatuum (singular Notitia Episcopatuum is the name given to official documents that furnish for Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan 840) confirms this (Gelzer, Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, 25). Georgius Cuprios ( George of Cyprus) was a Byzantine geography of the Seventh century.
On the other hand Marcianopolis is not mentioned in the Notitia of Leo the Wise (c. This article is about the Byzantine Emperor There is also an article on Pope Leo VI Leo VI "the Wise" or "the Philosopher" 900) nor in that of Constantine Porphyrogenitus (c. Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" ( Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Ζ΄ Πορφυρογέννητος 940), because the region was Bulgarian. Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 1217-1220) mentions many bishops of Marcianopolis and Preslav, erroneously identifying these two towns. Michel Le Quien ( Boulogne-sur-Mer 8 October 1661 – Paris 12 March 1733) was a French historian and theologian Preslav (Преслав was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire from 893 to 972 and one of the most important cities of medieval Southeastern Europe. The Preslav of the Middle Ages remains Preslav to this day, and his Marcianopolis is the town of Devnya, a little to the west of Varna in Bulgaria. Devnya (Девня is a town in Varna Province, located in northeastern Bulgaria 25 km west of Varna. Varna (Варна is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv This name under the form Bulgaria is mentioned by George Pachymeres on account of something that took place there in 1280 (De Michaele Palaeologo, VI, 49). Georgius Pachymeres (1242 &ndash c 1310 Byzantine Historian and miscellaneous writer was born at Nicaea, in Bithynia, where his father had
Source
- "Marcianopolis". Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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