- Calynda
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genus ofmetalmark butterflies , see "Calydna (butterfly) .Calynda (also Calinda, Calydna, or Karynda) was a city in ancient
Caria . [web cite|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03204b.htm|title=Calynda|work=Catholic Encyclopedia ]History
It was probably situated at the boundary of
Lycia andCaria (on the river Indos?), for it is placed in the former territory byPtolemy (xxxi, 16), in the latter byStephanus Byzantius . Stephanus gives also another form of the name, Karynda. Calynda must be carefully distinguished fromKalydna ,Kalydnos ,Karyanda andKadyanda . Its king, Damasithemos, was an ally of QueenArtemisia 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.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 asuffragan ofMyra , themetropolis of Lycia. Bishop Leontius of Calynda is mentioned in 458 (Mansi, Concil., VII, 580) in the letter of the Lycian bishops to the ByzantineEmperor Leo I the Thracian . It remains a Roman Catholictitular see .References
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