Prusias ad Hypium
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.906, 31.148
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Прусиада-на-Гипии — древний город в Малой Азии, к востоку от Гераклеи Понтийской.
History
Prusias ad Hypium was a city in ancient Bithynia, and afterwards in the late Roman province of Honorias. In the 4th century it became a bishopric that was a suffragan of Claudiopolis in Honoriade. Before its conquest by King Prusias I of Bithynia, it was named Cierus or Kieros and belonged to the Heraclea Pontica. Photius writes that it was called Kieros, after the river which flows by it.