Dometiopolis () or Domitiopolis (Δομητιούπολις) was a city of Cilicia Trachea, and in the later Roman province of Isauria in Asia Minor. Its ruins are found in the village of Katranlı (formerly Dindebul), Ermenek, Karaman Province, Turkey.Richard J. A. Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-by-map Directory (Princeton University Press 2000 ), Volume 1, p. 1016
History The city, whose previous name is unknown, was named Dometiopolis (Greek: Δομετιούπολις) after Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC).Domitiopolis - Titular see of Isauria in Asia Minor John Malalas though writes about a city called Domitianoupolis and was built by Domitian.Malalas, Chronography, 10.266 According to Constantine Porphyrogenitus, it was one of the ten cities of the Isaurian Decapolis.Stephanus of Byzantium, De Urbibus, edited by Thomas de Pinedo (1725), p. 242Sophrone Pétridès, "Domitiopolis" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1909)
Episcopal see The episcopal see of Dometiopolis is mentioned in Gustav Parthey's Notitiæ episcopatuum, I and III, and in Heinrich Gelzer's Nova Tactica, 1618, as a suffragan of Seleucia. Lequien (Oriens Christianus II, 1023) mentions five bishops, from 451 to 879.
It remains a titular see of the Catholic Church,Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 882 sometimes under the spelling "Domitiopolis".
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