Satala
Sign in to saveLocated in Turkey, the settlement of Satala ( Satał, ), according to the ancient geographers, was situated in a valley surrounded by mountains, a little north of the Euphrates, where the road from Trapezus to Samosata crossed the boundary of the Roman Empire, when it was a bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Later it was connected with Nicopolis by two highways. Satala is now Sadak, a village of 348 inhabitants (2022), in the Kelkit District of Gümüşhane Province in Turkey.
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- Turkey place.type
- village
- Turkey place.province
- Gümüşhane
- Turkey place.district
- Kelkit
- Turkey place.name
- Sadak
- Turkey place.other_name
- Satala
- Turkey place.population_total
- 348
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Satala Aphrodite Yerevan 2025.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Satala Aphrodite as displayed in the British Museum
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- Σάταλα
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- Satala, Cappadocia
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- History
- Ecclesiastical history
- Titular see
- Its rediscovery
- Archaeological remains
- References
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Located in Turkey, the settlement of Satala ( Satał, ), according to the ancient geographers, was situated in a valley surrounded by mountains, a little north of the Euphrates, where the road from Trapezus to Samosata crossed the boundary of the Roman Empire, when it was a bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Later it was connected with Nicopolis by two highways. Satala is now Sadak, a village of 348 inhabitants (2022), in the Kelkit District of Gümüşhane Province in Turkey.
== History == This site must have been occupied as early as the annexation of Lesser Armenia under Vespasian. Trajan visited it in 115 and received the homage of the princes of the Caucasus and the Euxine. Probably it was Trajan who placed there the Legio XV Apollinaris and began the construction of the great castra stativa (permanent camp) which it was to occupy till the 5th century. The town must have sprung up around this camp; in the time of Ptolemy it was already important. In 530 the Persians were defeated by the Byzantine Empire under its walls. Justinian I constructed more powerful fortifications there, but these did not prevent Satala from being captured in 607-8 by the Persians.
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