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Barbalissos (Latinized as Barbalissus) was a city in the Roman province of Euphratensis. Its site is marked by the ruins at Qala'at Balis, which partly retains the old name, south of Maskanah (the ancient Emar), in modern Syria, on the road from Aleppo to the site of Sura, where the Euphrates turns suddenly to the east. ==History== The city, built near the ruined site of ancient Emar, which had fallen in 1187 BC. During the Roman Empire served as the base of the ''Equites Dalmatae Illyriciani'', a Roman cavalry unit which probably had its origins in the Balkans.〔Boecking (editor), ''Notitia Dignitatum Orientis'', pp. 88, 389, cited in Raymond Janin, v. "Barbalissos", in (''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'' ), vol. VI, 1932, coll. 575-576; and in (Siméon Vailhé, "Barbalissos" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1907) )〕 In 253 it was the site of the Battle of Barbalissos in which the Sassanid Persians under Shapur I defeated a Roman army. Shapur proceeded to sack and burn all the major towns and cities of Syria Coele such as Antioch, Zeugma and Samosata. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527–565) rebuilt its walls.〔Procopius, ''De Aedificiis'' II, 19; Malalas, ''Chronographia'', XVIII, in Jacques Paul Migne, ''Pat. Gr.'' XCVII, 676. These are cited in Janin, ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'' and in Vailhé, "Barbalissos" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia''.〕 The Arabic version of the list of the bishops at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 includes an Antonius of Barbalissus.〔Michel Lequien, (''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'' ), Paris 1740, Tomo II, coll. 949-950〕 Sources in Greek mention a Bishop Aquilinus of Barbalissus, who, at the time of the Council of Ephesus (431), was a partisan of Nestorius and was for that reason exiled from the bishopric; and Theodoret of Cyrus speaks of a Bishop Marinianus of Barbalissus, who may have been the replacement for Barbalissus, as having been imposed by force.〔〔Raymond Janin, v. ''Barbalissos'', in (''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'' ), vol. VI, 1932, coll. 575-576〕 Although Lequien wrote that no ''Notitia Episcopatuum'' mentioned Barbalissus, which he suggested was a small fortified town rather than a city,〔 an early 20th-century writer says the diocese is included in one such list, dating from the 6th century, as a suffragan of Hierapolis Bambyce, within the patriarchate of Antioch.〔(Siméon Vailhé, "Une 'Notitia Episcopatuum' d'Antiochie du Xe siècle" in ''Echos d'Orient'' ) X (1907), p. 94.〕 It appears in no later ''Notitia Episcopatuum'', apparently because at some unclear date it passed into the possession of the Jacobite Church. The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian gives the names of five Jacobite Bishops of Bales or Beit Bales (the Syriac equivalent of Barbalissus): John, Habib, Basil, Timothy, and Elias.〔(''Revue de l'Orient chrétien'' ), 6 (1901), p. 192.〕 No longer a residential diocese, the bishopric of Barbalissus is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.〔''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 846〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbalissos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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