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- Diospolis ('City of Zeus') may refer to: Diospolis (Bithynia), in Bithynia, Anatolia Diospolis (Lydia), in Lydia, Anatolia Diospolis (Pontus), in Pontus...
- George as a soldier saint from early times had its centre in Palestine at Diospolis, now Lydda. St George was apparently martyred there, at the end of the...
- elongata. However, a year later Westwood renamed Lydda as Diospolis. Although the name Diospolis was subsequently used by various authors, the name Lydda...
- was called Diospolis Mikra (Ancient Gr****: Διὸς πόλις Μικρά, lit. 'lesser city of Zeus') in comparison with Thebes, Egypt, known as Diospolis Megale, "greater...
- Synod of Diospolis was a 415 synod in Diospolis (now Lod, Israel) in which Pelagius was accused of heresy by the exiled Gallic bishops. It followed a council...
- west of Develtus, on the river Tonsus. The town later bore the names of Diospolis (Διὸς Πόλις), and Goloë (Γολόη). The acropolis of the ancient city was...
- Dia (Ancient Gr****: Δῖα), also Diospolis (Διόσπολις), was a port city of ancient Bithynia on the Pontus Euxinus in Asia Minor. Marcian of Heraclea places...
- into Gr**** as Diospolis, "City of Zeus". To distinguish it from the numerous other cities by this name, it was known as the "Great Diospolis" (Διόσπολις...
- (144:28–29), identified it with Ramathaim-Zophim and wrote that it was near Diospolis (now Lod). Ramathaim-Zophim was a town in Ephraim, the birthplace of Samuel...
- were all Latin. A few months later in December of 415, at the synod of Diospolis (Lydda) under the bishop of Cæsarea was called by two deposed bishops...