Calynda

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Calynda (also Calinda, Calydna, or Karynda) was a city in ancient Caria.^[1]

[edit] History

It was probably situated at the boundary of Lycia and Caria (on the river Indos?), for it is placed in the former territory by Ptolemy (xxxi, 16), in the latter by Stephanus Byzantius. Stephanus gives also another form of the name, Karynda. Calynda must be carefully distinguished from Kalydna, Kalydnos, Karyanda and Kadyanda.

Its king, Damasithemos, was an ally of Queen Artemisia I of Caria (Herod., VIII, lxxxvii; Pliny, V, xxvii, who writes its name Calydna). It is mentioned among the cities that struck coins in the Roman period.

[edit] Ecclesiastical history

Its Christian history is very short, for it is not mentioned in the Notitiæ episcopatuum. We know only that it was at a certain time a suffragan of Myra, the metropolis of Lycia. Bishop Leontius of Calynda is mentioned in 458 (Mansi, Concil., VII, 580) in the letter of the Lycian bishops to the Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian.

It remains a Roman Catholic titular see.