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{{Short description|City in the Roman province of Galatia}}
'''Savatra''' ({{langx|grc|Σαύατρα}}), '''Sabatra''', or '''Soatra''' ({{langx|grc|Σόατρα}}) was a city in the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] province of [[Galatia (Roman province)|Galatia]], and subsequently the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] province of [[Lycaonia]].

==History ==
Little is known of this ancient town, but some of its coins have been preserved, and it is mentioned by [[Strabo]],<ref>XIV, 668.</ref> [[Ptolemy]],<ref>V, 4, 12.</ref> [[Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)|Hierocles]],<ref>672, 2.</ref> and the ''[[Tabula Peutingeriana]]''.  The name appears as "Savatra" on the coins, while "Sabatra" is found in the ''Tabula'',<ref>{{Cite Tabula|2166}}</ref> and "Soatra" in Strabo.

The town was situated in an arid region on the road from [[Laodicea Combusta]] (now [[Ladik]]) to Archelais (now [[Aksaray]]), near the village of [[Souverek]], in what was formerly the Ottoman [[vilayet of Koniah]]: according to [[W. M. Ramsay]],<ref>''Asia Minor'', 343.</ref> at the ruins four hours south-west of [[Eskil]]; according to Müller,<ref>''Notes to Ptolemy'', ed. Didot, I, 858</ref> near Djelil between Obrouklou, or Obrouk, and Sultan Khan.  Modern scholars place the site near [[Yağlibayat]] in [[Anatolia|Asiatic Turkey]].<ref>{{Cite Barrington|66}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|21578}}</ref>

===Ecclesiastical history===
[[Le Quien]] mentions two bishops of Savatra: Aristophanes, present at the [[First Ecumenical Council of Constantinople]] in 381; and Eustathius, who was living at the time of the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Le Quien|first=Michel|title=Oriens Christianus|title-link=Oriens Christianus|publisher=Typographia Regia|year=1740|volume=Tomus Primus|location=Paris|pages=1083–1084|language=Latin|chapter=Dioecesis Asiana|lccn=24029371|author-link=Michel Le Quien|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_1gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1083}}</ref> The Greek ''[[Notitiae episcopatuum]]'' mention the see till the thirteenth century.  It remains a [[Roman Catholic]] [[titular see]], suffragan of the archbishopric of [[Iconium]].

==Notes==
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==Sources==
*{{CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13486c.htm|title=Sauatra}}
*{{DGRG|title=Soatra}}

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[[Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia]]
[[Category:Populated places in ancient Lycaonia]]
[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Turkey]]
[[Category:Populated places of the Byzantine Empire]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Turkey]]
[[Category:History of Konya Province]]


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