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{{Short description|Ancient city in Cilicia}}
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[[File:Lyrbe, Agora.jpg|thumb|The Agora of Lyrbe]]

'''Lyrbe''' (spelled '''Lyrba''' in the 1910 ''Catholic Encyclopedia''; {{langx|grc|Λύρβη}}) was an ancient city and later [[episcopal see]] in the [[Roman province]] of [[Pamphylia Prima]] and is now a [[titular see]].<ref name=AP>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 918</ref>

[[File:Lyrbe 4473.jpg|thumb|A structure to the east of the agora]]
[[File:Lyrbe Naras Köprüsü 4510.jpg|thumb|Lyrbe Naras Bridge]]

Its site is identified with that about 1 km north of modern [[Bucakşeyhler]],<ref>{{Cite DARE|27764}}</ref><ref>J. Nollé, "Forschungen in Selge und Ostpamphylien", ''Araştırma'' 6 (1988), pp. 257–59.</ref> 

==History==

Its name is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by [[Dionysius Periegetes]],<ref>[[Dionysius Periegetes]] 858,</ref> [[Ptolemy]],<ref>{{Cite Ptolemy|5.5.5}}</ref> and [[Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)|Hierocles]].<ref>{{Cite Hierocles|p. 682}}</ref><ref name=CE>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09478a.htm Sophrone Pétridès, "Lyrba" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1910)]</ref> Dionysius places the town in [[ancient Pisidia|Pisidia]], while [[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]] equates Lyrbe with the '''Lyrope''' (Λυρόπη), mentioned by [[Ptolemy]] and placed by the ancient geographer in [[Cilicia Trachaea]].<ref>{{Cite Ptolemy|5.5.9}}</ref>

The ''[[Notitiae episcopatuum]]'' mention Lyrba as an episcopal see, [[suffragan]] of the [[archbishopric of Side]], up to the 12th and 13th centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the [[First Council of Constantinople]] in 381, and Taurianus at the [[First Council of Ephesus]] in 431 ([[Le Quien]], ''Oriens christianus'', I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of [[Syedra]].<ref name=CE/>

==The Site==

There are extensive remains of an [[agora]] containing a row of two-storey and three-storey building façades, a gate, a mausoleum, a Roman bath, a necropolis, in addition to several temples and churches. 

==See also==
* [[Seleucia (Pamphylia)]]
* [http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/lyrbe Extensive series of pictures of the remains of Lyrbe]

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[[Category:Former populated places in Turkey]]
[[Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia]]
[[Category:Populated places in ancient Pamphylia]]
[[Category:Populated places in ancient Cilicia]]
[[Category:Populated places in Pisidia]]
[[Category:Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey]]
[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Turkey]]


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