Korydalla Antik Kenti

About Korydalla Antik Kenti

Korydalla (also written Corydalla or Corydala) is an ancient Lycian city at the place now called Hacıveliler, about one kilometre west of the centre of Kumluca and 29 km north-east of Myra, according to the Ministry of Culture. In antiquity, according to Hecataeus as quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium, the city belonged to the Rhodians. The Roman road map known as the Tabula Peutingeriana marks it as Coridallo on the road from Phaselis to Patara. Pliny places it in the interior of Lycia, and Ptolemy lists it near Mount Massicytus together with Rhodia, Phellos, Myra and other places. Coins of the Roman imperial period bearing the name of the Korydalleans are known. At an early date Korydalla became a Christian bishopric under the metropolitan see of Myra, the capital of the Roman province of Lycia. Basil the Great praised Alexandros, Bishop of Korydalla, as a champion of orthodoxy in a letter to Amphilochius of Iconium, and Bishop Solon attended the Council of Ephesus in 431.