Pessinus (Greek: Πεσσινούς or Πισσινούς) was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia (Asian Turkey). The site of the city is now the modern Turkish village of Ballıhisar, in a tributary valley of the Sakarya River on the high Anatolian plateau at ca. 950 m above sea level, 13 km from the small town of Sivrihisar. Pessinus remains a Catholic (formerly double) titular see.
Hypothetic map of the ruins at Pessinus by the French explorer Charles Texier (1834).
whether Pessinus was already a temple state ruled by dynastai ("lords") in the Phrygian period. By the 3rd century BC at the latest, Pessinus had become...
the body to Pessinus, where it was consecrated and honored with yearly rites. Agdistis's story comes from the Phrygian city of Pessinus, a cultic center...
sacred symbol, a black meteorite, in a temple called the Megalesion in Pessinus in modern Turkey. The earliest surviving references to the galli come from...
account might attempt to explain the nature, origin, and structure of Pessinus' theocracy. A Hellenistic poet refers to Cybele's priests in the feminine...
Greek writer. He wrote at least one book, which was called Commonwealth of Pessinus and mentioned by Pseudo-Plutarch Agathocle, a play by Voltaire Agafokliya...
mythology, Mount Agdistis also called Agdos was a sacred mountain located at Pessinus in Phrygia. The mountain was personified as a daemon called Agdistis. Agdistis...
(Pelusium, Egypt) Archdiocese of Perge (Perga, Turkey) Archdiocese of Pessinus (Pessinus, Turkey) Archdiocese of Petra in Palaestina (Petra, Jordan) Archdiocese...
of Celtic Galatia included the cities of Ancyra (present day Ankara), Pessinus, Tavium, and Gordion. Upon the death of Deiotarus, the Kingdom of Galatia...
poet Martial Claudia Quinta, who helped bring the statue of Cybele from Pessinus to Rome Claudia Tisamenis, sister of Herodes Atticus Saint Claudia, mentioned...
so his body would never decay or decompose. At the temple of Cybele in Pessinus, the mother of the gods was still called Agdistis, the geographer Strabo...
century, bishop of Amorium was under the jurisdiction of metropolitan of Pessinus, but was later exempt and placed under direct patriarchal jurisdiction...
Cybele, called Mater Idaea Deum, that had been ceremoniously brought from Pessinus in Asia Minor in 204 BC. The emperor Elagabalus who reigned from 218 until...
to the treaty of 251. They crossed the border and attacked Cappadocia, Pessinus, and Ephesus. Modern historians believe that this missing payment was not...
legends about the most ancient King Midas. In one, Midas was king of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by King Gordias and Cybele...
centers, the headquarters of the Tectosages tribe. Other centers were Pessinus, today's Ballıhisar, for the Trocmi tribe, and Tavium, to the east of Ankara...
of the jurisdictions with their number of adherents. Achrida (Ohrid), Pessinus, Traianopolis in Rhodope Chalcedon, Colonia in Armenia, Mardin, Nisibis...
century, bishop of Amorium was under the jurisdiction of metropolitan of Pessinus, but he was later exempt and placed under direct patriarchal jurisdiction...
of the Phrygian Κυβέλη or Κυβήβη, was in very ancient times the town of Pessinus in Galatian Phrygia, at the foot of Mount Dindymus, from which the goddess...
through the heart of Anatolia that became Darius's Persian "Royal Road" from Pessinus to Ancyra, and not far from the River Sangarius. Later mythic kings of...
Graecia. In 203 BC, Rome imported the cult object embodying Cybele from Pessinus in Phrygia and welcomed its arrival with due ceremony. Both Lucretius and...
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