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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Anazarbus

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93606Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) — Anazarbus



Anazarbus, a titular metropolitan see of Cilicia (Lesser Armenia), suffragan of Antioch, known also to the ancients as Nova Troas, to the crusaders as Naversa, and to the Arabs as Aïn-Zarba. Councils were held there in 431 and 435.

SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 139; LEQUIEN, Oriens Christ. (1740), III, 631-632.