Hadriani
HADRIA´NI(Ἁδσιάνοι: Eth. Ἁδσιανεύς), a town in Bithynia, not far from the western bank of the river Rhyndacus. It was built, as its name indicates, by the emperor Hadrian, and for this reason did not exist in the time of Ptolemy; it was situated on a spur of Mount Olympus, and 160 stadia to the south-east of Poemanenus. (Aristid. 1. p. 596.) Hamilton ( Researches, i. pp. 90, foll.) thinks that he discovered its ruins near the village of Beyjik, on the road from Brusato Bergamo;but this does not quite agree with the above-mentioned distance from Poemanenus, according to which it ought to be looked for much further westward. Adriani was the birthplace of the rhetorician Aelius Aristides, who was born in A.D. 117. In the ecclesiastical writers the town is known as the see of a bishop in the Hellespontine province. (Hierocl. p. 693; Socrat. Hist. Eccles. 7.25; Concil. Nicaen. ii. pp. 51, 572; Concil. Chalced. p. 176; comp. Sestini, Geo. Num. p. 35.)
[L.S]Site in Pisidia near Karacaviran, 25 km S of Burdur, at one time identified with Kormasa. The true identification depends on a dedication by the Council and People of Hadriani to the Emperor Verus found near the village of Kozluca some 8 km W-SW. Apart from this one inscription the name of Hadriani occurs only in the Byzantine bishopric lists. No coins are known.
The site at Gâvur Ören is extensive though ruined; apart from a large building of unknown purpose the chief remains consist of tombs, including handsome sarcophagi and some impressive mausoleums now reduced to little more than a heap of blocks. The city's territory must have extended into the valley of the Lysis on the W, with a smaller area to the E. Whether Hadriani was a new foundation in the time of Hadrian or a refounding of an earlier town remains uncertain.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. M. Rainsay, Cities and Bishoprics I (1895) 327 n.1; G. E. Bean, AnatSt 9 (1959) 108-10.
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