Aurokra

Town of ancient Phrygia

Aurokra or Aurokla or Aurocla or Aulokra^[1] was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.^[2] It became a bishopric; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains, under the name Aurocla, a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.^[3]

Its site is located above Dort Köy near Doğancık in Asiatic Turkey.^[2]^[4]

References

^ William Mitchell Ramsay (1897). The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia. pp. 480–482.
^ ^a ^b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Catholic Hierarchy
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.