İnecik, Tekirdağ
İnecik is a district in the municipality of Süleymanpaşa, in Tekirdağ Province in European Turkey. Its Ottoman-era name was Aynadjik, and its Byzantine-era name was Chalcis (Greek: Χαλκίς).
İnecik | |
|---|---|
  İnecik Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 40°59′N 27°31′E | |
| Country |  Turkey |
| Province | Tekirdağ Province |
| İlçe (district) | Süleymanpaşa |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Urban | 2,125 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 59000 |
| Area code(s) | 0282 |
| Licence plate | 59 |
History
On account of its location, it is possible that the town is to be identified with the way-station (mutatio) of Bedizum, listed in the late Roman Itinerarium Burdigalense.[1]
Chalcis is first attested as a bishopric in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which was attended by its iconophile bishop, Sissinios.[1] Another bishop, named Demetrios, is attested through a lead seal dating to the 8th or 9th centuries, and in the 9th century a droungarios named Staurakios or Theophylact.[1] However, the see does not appear in the Notitiae Episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Constantinople until the reign of Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912).[1]
In 1051, a Pecheneg invasion was defeated near the town.[1] In the Partitio Romaniae, the town is listed as part of an episkepsis along with Rhaidestos and Panion.[1]
In Ottoman times, the settlement was named Aynadjik (Αϊναρτζίκ for the local Greek population), and was visited by the traveller Evliya Celebi, who described it as lying in a wide and fruitful plain with tile-roofed houses. Kara Piri Pasha made several donations there.[1] In c. 1839, the local agriculture is reported as following a two-year cycle of cultivation followed by pasture.[1] The village remained predominantly Greek-populated until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923; on its eve, in 1922, there were 1,092 Greeks.[1]
Monuments
The town's old mosque (Eski Camii) features four Byzantine-era columns, and its forecourt and garden feature other early and middle Byzantine-era architectural fragments.[1]
Titular see
The diocese of Chalcis was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular see (Chalcis in Europa) by the Roman Catholic Church, but has remained vacant since.[2]
References
- Külzer 2008, p. 307.
- "Titular Episcopal See of Chalcis in Europa". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
Sources
- Külzer, Andreas (2008). Tabula Imperii Byzantini: Band 12, Ostthrakien (Eurōpē) (in German). Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-3945-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)