Moutalaske

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Moutalaske (Greek: Μουταλάσκμ, romanized: Moutalaskē) was a town of ancient Cappadocia, inhabited in Byzantine times.[1] It was the birthplace of both Saint Sabas (439) and Saint Meletios (c. 1035).[2] The former, during a visit to emperor Anastasios I in Constantinople, sent money back to his home village in Moutalaske to fund the construction of a church dedicated to the Saints Cosmas and Damian.[3]

Its site is located near Talas, Asiatic Turkey,[1][4] about 6 km east of Kayseri, at the steep escarpment of a high plateau 200 m above the Kayseri basin.[3] There are traces of a troglodyte settlement here including a monastery dedicated to Panagia (its naos and part of its choir were preserved in the vineyards of Nea Moutalaske around 1900) and, according to , two cave chapels dedicated to Saints Georgios and Koimesis.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 63, and directory notes accompanying.
  2. ^ Johannes Pahlitzsch (2019), "Byzantine Monasticism and the Holy Land: Palestine in Byzantine Hagiography of the 11th and 12th Centuries", in D. Bertaina et al. (eds.), Heirs of the Apostles: Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H. Griffith (Leiden: Brill), pp. 231–255, at 243–245.
  3. ^ a b c Hild, Friedrich; Restle, Marcell (1981). Tabula Imperii Byzantini Bd. 2. Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia, und Lykandos). Wien: Herbert Hunger. p. 242. ISBN 3700104014. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  4. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

Coordinates: 38°42′25″N 35°24′06″E / 38.706905°N 35.401742°E / 38.706905; 35.401742


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