This article is about the ancient town in Asia Minor. For the Ecumenical Council of the year 451, see Council of Chalcedon. For the American political religious organization, see Chalcedon Foundation. For the mineral, see Chalcedony. For the municipality in Greece, see Chalkidona. For the stringed instrument (or Colachon), see Mandora.
Not to be confused with Châteldon.
Town in Bithynia
Chalcedon
Χαλκηδών
Town
The small Church of St Euphemia that serves as the Greek Orthodox cathedral of the Metropolitan Diocese
Etymology: Carthage
Bithynia as a province of the Roman Empire, 120 AD
Chalcedon (/ˈkælsɪˌdɒn,kælˈsiːdən/;[1] Ancient Greek: Χαλκηδών, romanized: Khalkēdṓn; sometimes transliterated as Khalqedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor. It was located almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari (modern Üsküdar) and it is now a district of the city of Istanbul named Kadıköy. The name Chalcedon is a variant of Calchedon, found on all the coins of the town as well as in manuscripts of Herodotus's Histories, Xenophon's Hellenica, Arrian's Anabasis, and other works. Except for the Maiden's Tower, almost no above-ground vestiges of the ancient city survive in Kadıköy today; artifacts uncovered at Altıyol and other excavation sites are on display at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
The site of Chalcedon is located on a small peninsula on the north coast of the Sea of Marmara, near the mouth of the Bosphorus. A stream, called the Chalcis or Chalcedon in antiquity[2] and now known as the Kurbağalıdere (Turkish: stream with frogs), flows into Fenerbahçe Bay. There, Greek colonists from Megara in Attica founded the settlement of Chalcedon in 685 BC, some seventeen years before Byzantium.
The Greek name of the ancient town is from its Phoenician name qart-ħadaʃt, meaning "New Town", whence Karkhēd(ōn),[3] as similarly is the name of Carthage. The mineral chalcedony is named after the city.[4]
ChalcedonChalcedon (/ˈkælsɪˌdɒn, kælˈsiːdən/; Ancient Greek: Χαλκηδών, romanized: Khalkēdṓn; sometimes transliterated as Khalqedon) was an ancient maritime...
The Council of Chalcedon (/kælˈsiːdən, ˈkælsɪdɒn/; Latin: Concilium Chalcedonense) was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church. It was convoked...
Definition of Chalcedon) is a declaration of Christ's nature (that it is dyophysite), adopted at the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451. Chalcedon was an early...
The Chalcedon Foundation is an American Christian Reconstructionist organization founded by Rousas John Rushdoony in 1965. Named for the Council of Chalcedon...
Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council, held in 451. Chalcedonian Christianity accepts the Christological Definition of Chalcedon, a Christian...
Eastern Orthodox Church, was a virgin martyr, who died for her faith at Chalcedon in 303 AD. According to tradition, Euphemia was martyred for refusing...
shared communion with the imperial Roman church before the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD, and with the Church of the East until the Council of Ephesus...
The Battle of Chalcedon may refer to: Battle of Chalcedon (74 BC), a naval battle of the Third Mithradatic War Battle of Chrysopolis in 324 AD, in which...
absorbed by the divine, leaving only a divine nature. In 451, the Council of Chalcedon, on the basis of Pope Leo the Great's 449 declaration, defined that in...
Saint Crispus of Chalcedon was a bishop of Chalcedon. He is mentioned in First Corinthians 1:14. He was a ruler of the Jewish Synagogue at Corinth, He...
a Greek physician regarded as one of the earliest anatomists. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the majority of his life in Alexandria. He was the first scientist...
The Metropolis of Chalcedon (Greek: Μητρόπολη Χαλκηδόνος) is an ecclesiastical territory (diocese) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Christianity...
Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Απολλώνιος) of Chalcedon was an ancient Greek Stoic[full citation needed] who taught philosophy. He was invited by the Roman...
different traditions make Tychicus out to be the Bishop of Colophon, Chalcedon or Neapolis in Cyprus. His feast in the Roman calendar of saints is kept...
differs from orthodox dyophysitism, that was reaffirmed at the Council of Chalcedon (451). Such teachings brought Nestorius into conflict with other prominent...
known as a character in Plato's Republic. Thrasymachus was a citizen of Chalcedon, on the Bosphorus. His career appears to have been spent as a sophist...
Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church were in schism after the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, resulting in a conflict with the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria...
of Chalcedon (Greek: Διονύσιος; fl. 320 BC) was a Greek philosopher and dialectician connected with the Megarian school. He was a native of Chalcedon on...
Catechetical Orations in the Syriac language. In 451, the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon promulgated the Chalcedonian Definition. It agreed with Theodore that...
Ephesus in 431. The Chalcedonian Definition, or Creed of Chalcedon, developed at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, though rejected by the Oriental Orthodox, taught...
Xenocrates (/zəˈnɒkrəˌtiːz/; Greek: Ξενοκράτης; c. 396/5 – 314/3 BC) of Chalcedon was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and leader (scholarch) of the...
The variable checkerspot or Chalcedon checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western North America...
document which was a major foundation to the debates of the Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council. That meeting dealt primarily with Christology...
Phaleas of Chalcedon (Ancient Greek: Φαλέας; fl. 5th or early 4th century BCE was a Greek statesman of antiquity, who argued that all citizens of a model...
of Chalcedon. and was an important step in the schism between the Armenian Church and the Byzantine and Georgian Churches. The Council of Chalcedon had...
Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, and the Council of Chalcedon in 451. During most of its existence, the Byzantine Empire was one of...
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