Zela

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Zela is the Ancient name of the present Turkish town of Zile.

This article incorporates unedited text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia, which may be out of date, or may reflect the point of view of the Catholic Church as of 1913. It should be edited to reflect broader and more recent perspectives.

In pagan times the city, which was situated on the Seylax, belonged to priests, equal in dignity to the princes of Pontus, lords of the territory.

  • Persian era - the Persian kings consecrate a famous temple on the eminence which rises in the middle of the city to their national divinities, Anahita, Vohu-Mano, and Anadates
  • Third Mithridatic War - At first a mere hamlet, Zela obtained from Pompey the title of city, and became the capital of a district allotted to Queen Pythadoris (Strabo, XI, viii, 4; XII, iii, 37; Pliny, "Hist. Nat.", VI, 8).
  • 67 BC - site of the victory of Mithridates Eupator over Valerius Trianus, lieutenant of Lucullus
  • 47 BC site of the victory of Caesar over Pharnaces, of which he wrote his famous phrase, "Veni, Vidi, Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered).
  • Under Nero - Finally ceded to Rome, with all Pontus Polemoniacus, by its last king. and remained part of the Roman and then Byzantine empires until 1397
  • 4th century - An Arian council was held there (letter 72 of St. Basil)
  • 1397 - seized by the Turks

For a while, Zela, known as Zīleh, was a kaza in the sandjak of Tokat.

Wikisource has an original article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia about:

Zela is a titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Amasea in the former Roman province of Helenopontus.

Le Quien (Oriens christ., I, 541) mentions several bishops:

According to the "Acta Patriarchatus Constantinopolitani" of Miklosich and Muller (I, 69), there was a bishop at Zela in 1315; he was then named Metropolitan of Amasea; later the see was suppressed.

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