Camuliana, Camulia, Kamoulianai, or Kamoulia (Greek: Καμουλιαναί, Καμούλιανα) was an ancient town or perhaps a village in ancient Cappadocia, located northwest of Caesarea, today Kayseri in Turkey. It is mostly mentioned in connection with the Image of Camuliana, an acheiropoieton or "icon not made by hands" of the face of Christ, which was one of the earliest of this class of miraculously created icons to be recorded; this is also sometimes referred to simply as the "Camouliana".[1] During Byzantine times, the town was also called Iustinianoupolis Nova.[2][3]
Its site is tentatively located near Emmiler, Asiatic Turkey.[2][3] It lay on the old Byzantine road from Kaisareia to Tabia, near the point where it crossed the Halys river by the Çokgöz Köprüsü bridge.[4] The name of the place is of Celtic origin.[4]
Camuliana was made into a polis under Justinian with the name Iustinianopolis, but after the acheiropoieton was transferred to Constantinople in 574, the city lost much of its significance and the name "Iustinianopolis" fell out of use.[4] It is probably identical with the tourma of Kymbalaios in the later Byzantine theme of Charsianon.[4] From 971-5 Kymbalaios was the seat of a strategos whose task was probably to secure the road near the Çokgöz Köprüsü.[4]
- ^ Beckwith, 88; Mango, 114-115
- ^ a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 63, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ a b Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ a b c d e Hild, Friedrich; Restle, Marcell (1981). Tabula Imperii Byzantini Bd. 2. Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia, und Lykandos). Wien: Herbert Hunger. pp. 197–8. ISBN 3700104014. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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