Soterioupolis
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Soterioupolis (; "City of the Saviour") or Soteropolis (Σωτηρόπολις) was a Byzantine fortress in the southeastern Black Sea coast during the 10th–12th centuries. The name has been suggested to apply to two different localities, Pitsunda in Abkhazia and Borçka in Turkey.
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It sits within the topics Byzantine forts, Byzantine Pontus and Catholic titular sees in Asia.
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- fort
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Country
- Turkey
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- inception
- 1929-00-00
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Soterioupolis (; "City of the Saviour") or Soteropolis (Σωτηρόπολις) was a Byzantine fortress in the southeastern Black Sea coast during the 10th–12th centuries. The name has been suggested to apply to two different localities, Pitsunda in Abkhazia and Borçka in Turkey.
== Byzantine town == According to the mid-10th century De administrando imperio, Soterioupolis was located on the border with Abasgia, while seal finds attest that it was the capital of a border district or kleisoura. The Escorial Taktikon, written in the 970s, mentions a "strategos of Soterioupolis or Bourzo", and the contemporary Notitiae Episcopatuum record that it was the seat of an autonomous archbishopric.
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