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'''Ibora''' was a city in the late [[Roman province]] of [[Helenopontus]], which became a Christian bishopric. It is now called [[List of populated places in Tokat Province|İverönü, Erbaa]]<ref name=Egan>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LHdS5hNH7zsC&pg=PA43 Harvey D. Egan, ''An Anthology of Mysticism''] (Liturgical Press 1991 {{ISBN|978-0-81466012-6}}), p. 43</ref> in present-day [[Tokat Province]], [[Turkey]]. This is stated also by the ''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'', which lists the bishopric as a [[titular see]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 907</ref>

The article by Siméon Vailhé in the 1910 [[Catholic Encyclopedia]] placed its site at modern [[Turhal]] in the same modern province.<ref name=CE>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07615a.htm Siméon Vailhé, "Ibora" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1910)]</ref>

== History ==

Vailhé says that, according to some sources, the primitive name of the city was [[Gaziura]], formerly a royal city, mentioned by [[Strabo]] as deserted (XII, xv: [[Dio Cassius]], xxxv, 12). In fact a [[Greek language|Greek]] inscription, which dates from the time of [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]], has been discovered on the rock of the fortress; a subterranean gallery, hewn from the rock, descends to the interior of the mountain and served perhaps as a secret depository for the royal treasures.<ref name=CE/>

Ibora was the home town of [[Evagrius Ponticus]],<ref name=Egan/> the famous [[Origen]]ist ascetic of the 4th century, and was situated not far from Arnesi, the property of [[Saint Basil]], who led a religious life on the bank of the river [[Yeşil River|Iris]] with his friend [[Saint Gregory]] and his sister [[Macrina the Younger|Macrina]]. The correspondence of these two saints frequently mentions  Ibora, which, according to [[Procopius]] (''Historia Arcana'', xviii), was destroyed by an [[earthquake]] in the 6th century.<ref name=CE/>

== Bishops ==

[[Le Quien]] (''Oriens Christ.'', I, 533) mentions seven bishops of Ibora, from the 4th to the 9th century. The bishopric was still active about the year 1170 under [[Manuel Comnenus]] ([[Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)|Hierocles]]; Parthey, "Hieroclis Synecdemus," 108).<ref name=CE/>

==See also==
*[[Gaziura]]
*[[Talaura]]
*[[Turhal]]

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