- Sauatra
Sauatra is a Roman Catholic
titular see in the formerRoman province ofLycaonia , suffragan of thearchbishopric of Iconium (modern Konya).history
Nearly nothing is known of this ancient town, but some of its coins have been preserved and it is mentioned by
Strabo [XIV, 668.] ;Ptolemy [V, 4, 12.] ;Hierocles [672, 2.] ; and the "Tabula Peutingeriana ". The name in this title is spelled as it occurs on the coins; Sabatra which is its equivalent in pronunciation is also found, also Soatra, in Strabo. The town was situated in an arid region on the road from Laodicea toArchelais , that is, near the modern village ofSouverek , in the Ottomanvilayet of Koniah : according toW. M. Ramsay ["Asia Minor", 343.] , at the ruins four hours south-west ofEskil ; according to Müller ["Notes to Ptolemy", ed. Didot, I, 858] , near Djelil between Obrouklou, or Obrouk, and Sultan Khan.Le Quien ["Oriens Christianus", I, 1083.] mentions two bishops of Sauatra: Aristophanes, present at theFirst Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in 381; and Eustathius, who was living at thc time of theCouncil of Chalcedon in 451. The Greek "Notitiae episcopatuum " mention the see till the thirteenth century.Notes
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